Netanyahu is in the middle of his criminal trial. Marine LePen’s is scheduled to start in, I believe, March. Bolsonaro will probably follow at some time this year. Trump’s legal problems have been well documented. Is it a coincidence that all of these people are prominent right-wing populists?
They would say no; they are all victims of a corrupt liberal establishment. How wildly different countries wind up with liberal establishments that behave in the same way is something of a mystery to me. The left would also say no, but ground that opinion in the right’s belief that power, ideology, and the cult of personality override respect for the law. That hypothesis is more plausible.