I say I say... is it already dead American Democracy?

Seventy years ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months.  A similar fate appears to be befalling American Democracy.  American democracy is founded around the separation of political power among a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary.  

With recent events such as the Supreme Court making perverse and unconstitutional decisions (such as that Trump has immunity from prosecution to the level where if the President commits a crime whilst within his official capacity or adjacent to it his motives can't be questioned or his documents used to convict him) and Judge Cannon pulling the plug of the Missing Documents case on the grounds that Jack Smith's position as Special Council is unconstitutional on the advice of a rogue Supreme Court Justice's unasked for opinion it's pretty clear that the Judicial wing of government has been totally corrupted.  It doesn't matter what court finds Donald Trump guilty of felonies, it will be escalated to the Supreme Court who will just let him off ...or concoct another reason why he should not be in prison.  If it gets there at all before or after November when Trump is sworn in again... Although he isn't actually sworn in till January... If he wins in November....

However, the death of the Judicial wing of the government still leaves the Legislature and Executive ticking over in much the same way that after the chicken was beheaded in Colorado there was still enough of its brain stem surviving to allow its legs to keep moving and to keep it running all over the place.  Perpetually in motion but seemingly going nowhere.  Incumbent governments everywhere are having a hard time due to massive inflation and the pandemic so it's likely Biden won't win this year.  Not unless he stays up after his bedtime again and we all saw what happened last time...  

I think it was Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff who said "We read in the newspapers that the after-pandemic years were bad everywhere, that crime was increasing and that honest citizens were having a hard job to put the gangsters in jail.  Well in the United States, the gangsters finally succeeded in putting the honest citizens in jail."  

For how else can you describe the situation where Donald Trump becomes President, pardons himself and then his lackies...? He then promises to go on a vengeance spree to match a Tarantino movie...?

There may be a miracle like Juan Merchan actually passing sentence on the 18th of September but I doubt it...  He would be a fool not to fear retribution.  The damage is done.