Even if you never “went back to brunch” after Joe Biden became president, you could be forgiven for putting Donald Trump’s antics at the end of his term in the back of your mind. Trump’s claims about election fraud and his attempts to stay in power may have been dangerous in a certain light, but they were also ridiculous on their face, and of course they ultimately failed.

After all, much bigger problems have arisen in the interim — like how much of the country’s meager social safety net Biden is willing to give away in negotiations over the debt ceiling, or whether he would destroy the financial stability tens of millions of student debtors were able to achieve during the loan payment pause.

But two important events have thrust Trump back into the limelight. Together with a right-wing Supreme Court willing to use the flimsiest rationales to justify their desired policy outcomes, they threaten to push America’s already weak democracy to the breaking point.