Article is largely comprised of opinions from academics who study Government, Democracy, and/or Authoritarianism.
This quote from Prof Sean Westwood hit me particularly hard, motivating this post:
The most permanent damage, however, is the precedent. With these guardrails shattered, the temptation for a future Democratic administration to launch its own campaign of retribution — using a weakened system for its own ends — becomes immense. This is the grim, iterative nature of democratic backsliding: each transgression lowers the floor for the next, creating a cycle of political revenge that, once started, is nearly impossible to unwind.
Hurting America is why China and Russia helped him get elected and gave him all these resources and connections to the christo-fascists that have stacked SCOTUS
As if the Democrats have the balls to do anything like Trump is doing. Besides, why would they be worried about future Democratic administrations, I very much doubt he plans to leave office in his lifetime, and by then they’ll have eroded free and fair elections that would remove them from power, assuming they haven’t already killed or imprisoned minority party “leadership”
Are you kidding? Afraid? They are actively trying to incite one
