Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Feb 25
“To actually change the nature of #politics, to move beyond the current state of affairs ( #competitiveauthoritarianism) to something else, to #fascism, #Trump needs another kind of #conflict.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mfp45v7rbs2o
Show threadmokomokaiNov 11, 2025

Jedoch existiert in den USA dank Donald #Trump keine #Demokratie mehr, sondern laut Historikern ein #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism also ein auf Wettbewerb ausgerichteter #Autoritarismus

Man könnte im deutschen vielleicht auch von Partikularen #Autoritarismus sprechen, denn eigentlich existiert in den USA oekonomisch aufgrund der #Vermögensungleichheit kein Wettbewerb mehr, sondern #Privilegierung. Dazu passt auch die #BallroomPolicy also #Refeudalisierung als Denkschule hinter dem Autoritarismus

mokomokaiOct 31, 2025

>Trump sollte sie reich machen - jetzt sind sie ARBEITSLOS<

Es ist #Halloween, doch die Politik braucht nicht ein einzelnes Datum, um Horror erzeugen zu können

Diese Podcast - Folge zeigt den Zusammenhang von fehlender politischer Bildung, politischem Desinteresse & dem Wählen gegen die eigenen Interessen auf, mit dem Resultat eines #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism

#BallroomPolicy

Es zeigt auch auf, dass Akteure aus der Oekonomie nicht automatisch gute #Politik gestalten

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DxNDzxtyYWU&si=-aJyK6tXuy5MpvN6

Trump sollte sie reich machen - jetzt sind sie ARBEITSLOS

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mokomokaiOct 30, 2025

>Wie viel Nazi-Ideologie steckt in Trumps USA? | #Possoch | BR24<

#PolitischeKommunikation

#Vibeshift #PoliticalCommunication

Zur inhaltlichen Einordnung der zweiten #Trump - Administration

Stichworte: #Gleichschaltung & #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism
also kompetitiver #Autoritarismus

https://youtube.com/watch?v=V2E3XHRZ97A&si=rgZqL-xmbUxW2Yzq

Wie viel Nazi-Ideologie steckt in Trumps USA? | Possoch klärt | BR24

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BoudOct 16, 2025

US former spies are worried.

"The report, titled #AcceleratingAuthoritarianDynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline, was released on Thursday by the #SteadyState, a network of more than 340 former officers of the #CIA, #NSA, state department, and other national-security agencies." [1]

"We wrote it because the same tools we once used to assess foreign risks now show unmistakable warning signs at home." [1]

#BackslidingDemocracy #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/trump-authoritarianism-warning

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn

A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule

The Guardian
Show threadDon Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Aug 28, 2025
3 ... but it's also misleading in that the competition involved isn't genuine. But I can't think of an alternative, and " #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism" seems to be well on its way to becoming the established idiom for referring to such systems, including the one that seems to be emerging in the #US
Show threadDon Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Aug 28, 2025
2 ... but manage elections and the surrounding institutions in such a way that it's virtually impossible for the opposition to win and dislodge the government. " #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism" makes sense in that there is ostensibly an element of competition in the allocation of #power ...
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Aug 28, 2025
1 I feel ambivalent about the phrase "Competitive Authoritarianism," which seems to have emerged as the consensus way of referring to #authoritarianisms that maintain the apparatus of #electoral #democracy ... 🧵 #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Aug 28, 2025
“The consolidation of Trump’s power has happened very quickly, more rapidly than we have seen in other examples of #competitiveauthoritarian systems.” #Trump #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

The authoritarian checklist
The authoritarian checklist

It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy

Can We Still Govern?
maptoAug 8, 2025
Apparently what we have in #Bulgaria is called #competitiveAuthoritarianism in the US https://civicnebraska.org/20250423-competitive-authoritarianism-you/
#competitiveauthoritarianstates
'Competitive authoritarianism' and you - Civic Nebraska

In recent months, we have noticed a phrase emerging in the discourse surrounding the modern threats to American democracy: competitive authoritarianism. It isn't as stark or shocking as words like totalitarianism or dictatorship, and it doesn’t evoke the obvious repression of regimes like North Korea or the one-party rule of China. It’s subtler,…

Civic Nebraska