Yep. Our system depends on most of the people involved in the federal government - the president, congress, judges, bureaucrats - voluntarily following the constitution. There's no way to enforce anything otherwise.
I don’t see Trump going so far to ignore a court decision. He has a SCOTUS Trump card, so he isn’t too worried about lower court judges. Just puts them on blast as activist judges and threatens their lives.
Vance already said he wouldn't and bought into the "VP can overturn the election" nonsense. Pretty convenient for him.
It is a matter of time. If his stooges on the scotus rule against him, he will play the Andrew Jackson card. Unchecked power. Just like the founders intended. Pardons for all who follow his orders after defying a scotus ruling. Checkmate.
This is a tactic Trump used in his first administration, and why judges have been important to Mitch McConnell to get an authoritarian agenda passed. Trump’s “I’m not going to and you can’t make me” way of governance is a tactic where he knows what he’s doing is unconstitutional, and dares someone to challenge him in court. The SCOTUS has ruled against Trump several times so there’s no reason to think they won’t do it again. Bondi is going to be a busy little girl spending all her time trying to defend Trump, and she always manages to lose.
The amazing thing about the US experiment is that it relied on good faith governance. It's all a house of cards without it.
Courts are a tactic he has used his whole life. I'm not going to pay you until a judge forces it and then I will declare bankruptcy after paying myself big huge management fees.
This is from a conservative/Libertarian think tank and it just focuses on one impact of Trump's economic policy: Seven Charts Showing How Canada/Mexico Tariffs Would Harm the US Auto Industry (and American Car Buyers) The prediction that Trump will tank the economy isn't the hope of "libs", it's reality. Just Google the term "Smoot Hawley tariff" to see a likely consequence of Trump's across the board as well as his specific tariffs on steel and aluminum.