Americans were sleep-marched into fascism": Signs of creeping authoritarianism we can't miss again

[Guno צְבִי]

Trump’s first weeks back in office have been a whirlwind of chaos and political destruction. This is by design and one of the central features of the “shock and awe” strategy that Trump and his allies have been planning for years, as detailed in Project 2025 and Agenda 47, to undermine American democracy and replace it with a form of autocracy if not outright authoritarianism. This strategy is being rapidly enacted through such actions as the almost 100 executive orders that include voiding the 14th Amendment, declaring a national emergency for Trump’s mass deportation plan, gutting the Department of Justice, seemingly as part of a plan to get revenge on his personal “enemies,” firing inspectors generals en masse, reversing 60 years of progress in civil and human rights and freezing federal loans and grants.

This strategy of chaos and confusion is more than “just” a political strategy, it is a reflection of and amplified by Donald Trump’s personality, character and mind. Trump’s followers and allies are excited by the chaos because to them it is an example of him being a man of action and vitality and in all a great leader who is channeling the will and energy of the MAGA movement. The appearance of constant action, of being human dynamos, is a common tactic of authoritarians and fascist leaders.

"Americans were sleep-marched into fascism": Signs of creeping authoritarianism we can't miss again

Americans have "no lived experience of what happens when oligarchs sink their fangs into a country"

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[NiftyNiblick]

Our scruffy national gene pool has caught up with us.
A quarter millennium from brave new experiment to total dystopia--that's all that it's taken.

America voted for this. It's national suicide, and it's happening fast.

 

[Yakuda]

Trump’s first weeks back in office have been a whirlwind of chaos and political destruction. This is by design and one of the central features of the “shock and awe” strategy that Trump and his allies have been planning for years, as detailed in Project 2025 and Agenda 47, to undermine American democracy and replace it with a form of autocracy if not outright authoritarianism. This strategy is being rapidly enacted through such actions as the almost 100 executive orders that include voiding the 14th Amendment, declaring a national emergency for Trump’s mass deportation plan, gutting the Department of Justice, seemingly as part of a plan to get revenge on his personal “enemies,” firing inspectors generals en masse, reversing 60 years of progress in civil and human rights and freezing federal loans and grants.

This strategy of chaos and confusion is more than “just” a political strategy, it is a reflection of and amplified by Donald Trump’s personality, character and mind. Trump’s followers and allies are excited by the chaos because to them it is an example of him being a man of action and vitality and in all a great leader who is channeling the will and energy of the MAGA movement. The appearance of constant action, of being human dynamos, is a common tactic of authoritarians and fascist leaders.

"Americans were sleep-marched into fascism": Signs of creeping authoritarianism we can't miss again

Americans have "no lived experience of what happens when oligarchs sink their fangs into a country"

news.yahoo.com

Why didn't you idiots stop him from taking over? You claimed trump was was an existential threat to democracy for years yet you let him waltz in. You're a liar or a traitor which is it?

 

[AProudLefty]

Why didn't you idiots stop him from taking over? You claimed trump was was an existential threat to democracy for years yet you let him waltz in. You're a liar or a traitor which is it?

We voted.

 

[Lionfish]

Trump’s first weeks back in office have been a whirlwind of chaos and political destruction. This is by design and one of the central features of the “shock and awe” strategy that Trump and his allies have been planning for years, as detailed in Project 2025 and Agenda 47, to undermine American democracy and replace it with a form of autocracy if not outright authoritarianism. This strategy is being rapidly enacted through such actions as the almost 100 executive orders that include voiding the 14th Amendment, declaring a national emergency for Trump’s mass deportation plan, gutting the Department of Justice, seemingly as part of a plan to get revenge on his personal “enemies,” firing inspectors generals en masse, reversing 60 years of progress in civil and human rights and freezing federal loans and grants.

This strategy of chaos and confusion is more than “just” a political strategy, it is a reflection of and amplified by Donald Trump’s personality, character and mind. Trump’s followers and allies are excited by the chaos because to them it is an example of him being a man of action and vitality and in all a great leader who is channeling the will and energy of the MAGA movement. The appearance of constant action, of being human dynamos, is a common tactic of authoritarians and fascist leaders.

"Americans were sleep-marched into fascism": Signs of creeping authoritarianism we can't miss again

Americans have "no lived experience of what happens when oligarchs sink their fangs into a country"

news.yahoo.com

Guano, are you planning a move?

 

[Diogenes]

Guano is awfully entertaining.