Three major reports out this month say Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House.
An annual report from V-Dem, an institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, concluded democracy had deteriorated so much in the U.S. that it lowered the country’s democracy ranking from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries.
The U.S. landed between Slovakia and Greece.
I feel like this is giving him too much credit. His cronies are dismantling democracy. He’s just being steered from “issue” to “issue” like he’s in a wheelchair.
Once Trump is no longer in control I really hope that whoever inherits this mess will ensure these cronies who blatantly planned and are actively orchestrating the destruction of US democracy will be rounded up and prosecuted for what they’ve done.
Bin Laden’s threat to the US was a joke compared to what these people are doing and look at what happened to him.
We should start with the heritage foundation, and all those they’ve helped usher into positions of power.
So, billionaires?
Haha yeah, they’re pretty much the same picture.
That’s what we hoped when Biden got into office.
What did Biden and his administration do to people like Trump, DeJoy, Pai .etc?
Nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing. “Oh but but, Biden TRIED to get DeJoy to step down!” No, not enough. He should’ve been tried and convicted for knowingly trying to sabotage a general election. He got to walk clean. Trump, got away with initiating a huge Insurrection, he got to walk free and is back in power.
So, no, I don’t hope anymore for whoever to come in and hold these people accountable. What they’re going to do, is allow these cretins to go running free, not serve jail time, not face any punishment and still run with the shitty policies to build on. You can only do so much through executive orders, too.
We’re fucked. The time to remedy more damage was 2024 and it was fucked up.
I’m not holding my breath. If we get anything besides a Russian style dictatorship, it’ll be some useless Neoliberal who pardons everyone in the name of “peace” then leaves all but the worst Trump era policies in place
Unless the people actually do something, which is even less likely
Yeah, not Trump, the cadre of people who have been trying to do this since time immemorial, and the knobs who are constantly duped by them.
There is no war but class war.
Agreed. And I believe it’s being done so ‘easily’ because it was so very weak when he got to it.
“Terrorism,” as defined in the FRAA, is “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents.”
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF10613
At least there isn’t an organization of masked clandestine agents committing politically motivated violence against noncombatant targets in the US.
I mean, it’s certainly faster than the media and “watchdogs” are figuring out what’s happening.
Carey says autocrats try to co-opt or pressure government institutions that serve as referees but notes that didn’t work last month as the Supreme Court ruled against the president on tariffs.
“One of the things that the tariff decision suggested [is] he has not fully captured that set of referees,” said Carey, a professor of political science at Dartmouth, “and that’s the most important set.”
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s actually happening.
They ruled against Trump’s tariffs because this is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and he isn’t allowed to touch the money. Trump is a figurehead that’s being granted power by the ruling class, he’s only allowed to do what he’s doing because it’s useful.
The US was never a democracy. They just let us pretend because it was similarly useful.
Should be a wake up call to 100% of Americans, but I fear not enough.
I do think the democrats 50 state plan is making a difference. Hopefully it’s not too late.
If it is something that can be dismantled by one man, it never existed in the first place.
Grab ‘em by the fringe. They let you do it when you’re a dictator.
