Alexander KaiserMar 17
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“The US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey”. The Varieties of Democracy Institute: “Our data on the USA goes back to 1789. What we’re seeing now is the most severe magnitude of democratic backsliding ever…” https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

The Guardian
Mar 17 at 2:32pmkottke bot
Show threadKzad_BhatMar 17

@kottke whats even more perfidious is the amount of #Felonist enablers #TheSedionistFeloninCharge has. NOT. A. SINGLE. MEMBER. OF. THE. #FELONIST PARTY (#GOP) DOESNT. KNOW.

There are no innocents. There is no changing it from the inside. Either one believes in America and what it once stood for or one is a #Felonist. It really is that simple. I see a severe lack of those believing and fighting.

Show threadElizabethMar 17
@kottke We don't need a study to tell us. We already figured that out. What we need is a way to fix it without waiting until the mid-terms.
Show threadPetr SkálaMar 17
@kottke ❗
Show threadDidek6d ago
@kottke
Show threadVerena Rupp6d ago
@kottke Wow, took them long enough to notice that.
Show threadPonygirl6d ago
@kottke There will have to be a lot more dead bodies before they succeed.
Show threadHTPC NZ6d ago
@kottke pedo in chief to pedo king of USA to pedo emperor of the world, that turd has ambitions... If not Jr and Baron will fulfill the prophecy.