#autocrat

“President Trump has dropped unsubtle hints about his desire to cancel the November elections,” writes Sean Morales-Doyle, the director of the Brennan Center’s voting rights and elections program.

While this has caused understandable concern, “it’s election subversion, not cancellation, that is the real authoritarian move. The goal is to keep elections going but without unseating those in power.”

While “the campaign to rig our elections is well underway,” Sean writes, there are ways to fight back. “It will be incumbent on all of us — election officials, advocates, state law enforcement and voters — to see the administration’s efforts for what they are and to fight back.”

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Jul Quanouai

“Once an autocrat gets into office, it is very hard to get them out. They will disregard term limits, they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it. They will take your money, they will steal your freedom, and if they are clever, they will eliminate any structural protections you had before the majority realizes the extent of the damage.” ― Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

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With what's going on in Massy Murder....

Trump’s rise to power didn’t expose greatness. It exposed white mediocrity. A system so sick with racism that it chose a convicted con artist over competence, cruelty over care, and ego over equity. This was never about leadership. It was about protecting failure.

"Orbán’s power grab program runs on two components that you can think of as hardware and software. The populist hardware consists of hijacked institutions. The software is made up of populist discourses and narratives that are used to create and enlist the consent of the ruled.

Dismantling the hardware of the Orbán-Trump project requires first defeating its software, so let’s start there."