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"Unfortunately, rather than be shocked by each time Trump or one of his closest allies utter something openly authoritarian, we need to take a step back and realize that the Republican Party has become an authoritarian political party."

newrepublic.comTranscript: Musk’s Threats Darken as Trump Declares Himself Above LawAn interview with Steven Levitsky, a scholar of democratic breakdown, who explains how the latest threats from Trump and Elon Musk show telltale signs of a country slipping into authoritarian rule.

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It's not just the Republicans. The Democrats are, too. There are dozens of ways Dems could be obstructing, calling in FPS and CISA law enforcement, and rallying people to all kinds of peaceful resistance, but they're not doing any of it. They don't want to, and they're angry we're demanding it.

That's what cowardice does. They have the power at their disposal to stop the unethical, wantin, criminal destruction of the country. This is the same country in which their progeny will live under the shadow of an autocracy. They will also live with their family member's cowardice.

I've been saying for years that Trump has hijacked the Republican party into his image. And the Republican party let him because he had name recognition from being on TV. Many didn't know who he was before TV except those that heard of his hotels.

Democrats have failed miserably in defence of democracy. The Republicans have succeeded brilliantly in destroying it. Their strategy of hiding behind Trump has worked. Democrats have focused mostly on Trump and hardly on the Party. In less than a decade, Trump will be gone but Republicans will not.

They're Banana Republicans out to make America into a Banana Republic. It's really, really simple. Corrupt, incompetent, violent, unpredictable, serving only to make the obscenely rich even wealthier by exploiting as many regular people as possible.

“The open declaration that media should be jailed, that the journalists or editors or media owners should be jailed is obviously just outright authoritarian behavior”