Adam Serwer: First Days off the Trump Regime

[aurora]

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/trump-regime/606682/

Democratic backsliding can be arrested. But that is an arduous task, and a Trump defeat in November is a necessary but not sufficient step. Many Americans have doubtless failed to recognize what has occurred, or how quickly the nation is hurtling toward a state of unfreedom that may prove impossible to reverse. How long the Trump administration lasts should be up to the American people to decide. But this president would never risk allowing them to freely make such a choice. The Republican Party has shown that nothing would cause it to restrain the president, and so he has no reason to restrain himself.

[aurora]

It has some good info about modern authoritarianism.

It's also terrifying.

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I saw this come across my FB feed, but I was too scared to read it.

[downtoearth]

Thanks, I didn't see and I'll have to read tonight. So far it is terrifying...