From the article: "It turns out that would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer extreme enticements or impose draconian punishments in order to make successful power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre."

As the author details, it's basically the blueprint for #AgolfShitler's rapid expansion of the #ICEtapo--accompanied by the underreported assembling of civilian goon squads under the banners of the Klan (racist thugs), #Oathbreakers (antidemocracy #brownshirts), and Seven Mountains 'Christian' #Sturmtrumpers (violent religious extremists) to terrorize Americans who resist when the formal structures are ready to seize power.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/world/americas/actually-democracy-dies-in-hr.html