The US supreme court allowing the president effectively to abolish the Department of Education only reinforces this sense; Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent, explicitly wrote that the threat to our Constitution's separation of powers is grave.
On my first contact with the 27 regional federations, I found 23 closed doors. The federations refused to receive me in their homes, on the grounds of their satisfaction with the current administration and support for Rodrigues' re-election.