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      All it took was willingly electing an obvious autocratic wannabe dictator, who would have known?

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        Eh, it also took 3 other branches being complicit and not doing their job.

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          This is the important part. Trump 1.0 didn’t have carte blanche to get away with everything, the SCOTUS and a more compliant Congress have given 2.0 that authority.

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      It’d be nice if there would be a simple book being written on the things that happen in the years before a democracy flips. Might be helpful as a warning.