It’s hard to say exactly where the Rubicon is:
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themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
If you study countries that became fascist or dictatorships, power was never gained on a single day.
Like pre-WWII Germany, Hitler won an election yes, but he didn’t become a dictator on day one. Same with Putin.
It’s all the actions following, and the US can still combat it. But the odds are obviously against it now that Trump ‘owns’ every CEO of every single social media.
It’s the same as silencing your political opponents, just with extra steps.
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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Your right that this has been an at least 9 year effort (at minimum, with blocking Obama’s SC choice) There will likely will be 1 event he uses to declare a state of emergency and pull powers from the legislature to have direct access for things. That will either be a war he has started with another country, or a civil uprising within the country. Either way the straw that permanently brakes us will exist but sits stop a large stack