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It's a safe bet that he was fired "because he's a democrat".
Once again I'm aghast at how much power sitting politicians in the USA have. It's all top-down. Where's the democracy, accountability, rule of law?
That's supposed to be Congress and the Supreme Court, but both are thoroughly compromised. This will happen to insert your favorite democracy here if their local elites don't give something to the masses; this didn't happen because America's system is exceptionally vulnerable.
Depends on how you mean that; America's system has been flawed long before even Trump1.0. It all contributed to the shitshow we're now experiencing.
And it's not even "the law is good, the people in power are bad". Over decades, even centuries, people in power have poked holes into the system, codified as law. See e.g. Patriot Act.
True, but such flaws (either the same or different ones) also exist in—or are being carved into—the law in European systems (see: chat control). Europeans are also in general more nationalist than Americans since they actually live in nation states, making them in general more susceptible to rightwing spacegoating. The specific events might differ, but the mechanism is the same.
What's with the whataboutism?
But OK, let's entertain it:
It's not a 1:1 comparison. Things are much, much worse in the USA.
That's not my point; I'm trying to counter the common European/Anglophone idea that the current state of America is due to unique American flaws and not the end result of a West-wide trend due to greedy, powerful and unresponsive elites. My point is therefore that, because the underlying problem and many catslysts are the same, people living in these countries have to do something about their greedy, powerful and unresponsive elites if they don't want to go fascist like America. America was also much better ten years ago, but it rapidly got worse because the underlying conditions made it inevitable.
That's not your point either? 🤪
There's not much evidence that he is. It sounds more like retaliation for talking back to Hegseth.