“Our obsession with brute power has gotten us where we are now, a system where nearly 100% of American wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few men, one of whom has ascended to the highest political office (twice!) to become our very own authoritarian strongman.”

~ Alice Bolin

#Trump #Musk #authoritianism #TechBros #EconomicElites #gender #MaleEntitlement #strongman

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/08/boy-geniuses-great-men-trump

America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us

We’re obsessed with narratives about powerful men and how they got that way. But our mania for founder myths obscures an ideology of inequality

The Guardian

This quote about suppressing civil society reminds me even more of my 2 years in China, where this is absolutely what they do.

Community groups of any kind are illegal if they're not registered with the government. The closest thing to independent community organisations is informal chat groups on WeChat, and discussions on Weibo and Douyin posts. But these platforms are totally backdoored and monitored by CCP spy agencies.

#authoritianism #CivilSociety #China #CCP

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"Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership volume is a similar right-wing wish-list, but an overarching theme is the fortification of presidential power so a presumably conservative president could single-handedly impose right-wing policies on the nation. For a movement once defined by its cries against the evils of big government, this is quite the turnabout."

#DavidCorn

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/heritage-foundation-project-2025-trump-authoritarianism-our-land/

#politics #US #USPolitics #HeritageFoundation #authoritianism #autocracy

How right-wing groups are plotting to implement Trump's authoritarianism

Project 2025 is an out-in-the-open scheme to steer the US toward far-right autocracy.

Mother Jones