#BewareOfDarkness

Taken together, it’s what those who study authoritarian regimes warn is a classic case of what's called consolidation — where the state apparatus is being transformed around a singular figure, in this case Trump.

Jason Stanley, a philosophy professor at Yale, said in history the question comes up over and over again: How could people not have taken an authoritarian leader at his word about what was going to happen?
“Listen to Trump,” he said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-making-jan-6-attack-041147424.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00