People during January 25 protests. The caption reads "Fico protects thieves".
Robert Fico may think that if he violates the rule of law via a fast-tracked procedure in parliament, people will then lose the will to take to the streets, realising that they cannot do anything.
Moreover, let Slovakia's European partners observe the principle of equality and forgive him everything they have forgiven Viktor Orbán over the last ten years.
Let them be true bureaucrats, exactly like the ones that populists tell their voters about, and strictly follow the law to the letter, ignoring any criminal intent. Dismantling the rule of law and robbing voters is possible even without obviously violating any law. This is one of the oldest hymns of autocrats: we don't do anything that other democratic countries wouldn't do.
