DOES WALTER DURANTY APPROVE OF PACKING THE SUPREME COURT?

I get a daily briefing from New York's Times (an extra benefit for registering my Google account with them) and it's a window into what the woke scolds are thinking.  Here's a snippet from Thursday last.

Hungary’s governing party, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has undermined democracy by changing election rules, packing the courts with allies and insisting on uncritical media coverage. Orban has used the virus as an excuse to centralize authority even further.

Poland’s governing party, led by Jarosław Kaczynski, has taken a similar approach, mostly by neutralizing the judicial system.

When the E.U. expanded to include Hungary, Poland and six other countries in 2004, the bloc’s leaders made the mistake of assuming that Eastern and Central Europe were on a one-way path to democracy and the rule of law. (The naïveté bears some resemblance to American assumptions about how China would democratize after joining global trade treaties.)

Note how the final paragraph switches to U. S. naïveté about China, the better to divert attention from the way election rules get modified at short notice supposedly account the Wuhan coronavirus; the way some court intellectuals for the Democrats argue, including in the Times, for packing the courts; and the way the palace guard media carries water for Democrats.