order of things

These dreams and idolization of “white countries” are standard talking points of white supremacists and other members of the right-wing such as “Christian nationalists” who view America’s multiracial democracy as a failure and a threat to what they see as the “natural order of things” and white people having total control over the country’s political, economic and other centers of power.

Sometimes a checklist is helpful to know the order of things.

The country where this happens experiences a crisis of democratic legitimacy and other profound changes in the order of things: "Normalcy" becomes malignant; the public sinks into learned helplessness and survival mode.

“And you do that by challenging the normal order of things. It’s not a problem to be solved, but a tension to be managed.”

They had heard the commotion but continued with their work as if, two years and thousands of deaths into the war, it was all part of the normal order of things.