There was a TED talk that defined the toolkit for prosperity. The requirements were rule of law for everyone, minimal corruption, property ownership.
If you didn’t know what the law was day to day, it was easy to extort and abuse people. Corruption was a tax on the poor. A lack of documentation and registration to let people own the buildings they lived in and land they farmed prevented investment in that property or the ability to mortgage it to get more productive equipment.
A “the law is whatever the President wants to enforce” ruling is the exact opposite of what enabled our prosperity.
“A “the law is whatever the President wants to enforce”
That’s not how a country is run. That’s how a concentration camp is run.