Some people say that Brexit was a similar act of norm-breaking, and now the govenment is stockpiling insulin in advance of their planned disaster.
The current US government is actually not all that bad in practical terms by the standards of its behaviour in the 60s and 70s, but this is mostly because it's corrupt and ineffectual. They can't even prevent their own money launderers from being jailed.
Why would they prevent it? They are just cannon fodder, for them doing time is an occupational hazard that comes with such a high service price. If they can protect the king long enough (i.e. enough news cycles that people will bore of the whole affair), then it’s job done.
The current US government is actually not all that bad in practical terms by the standards of its behaviour in the 60s and 70s, but this is mostly because it's corrupt and ineffectual. They can't even prevent their own money launderers from being jailed.