Whether Trump and Musk are operating on Putin’s instructions or not, the result is the same: the deliberate dismantling of a liberal democratic order that has stood for 240 years.
Thom Hartmann
Dictatorial regimes are famously corrupt, marked by the ignorance and incompetence of the people around the dictator. But when your regime is part mafia spoof, part constitutional crisis, things stop being funny real fast.
Will Trump and Musk succeed in ending our democracy, replacing it with an autocratic “illiberal democracy” like in Hungary and Russia?
Trump has signed a series of Executive Orders (EOs) forbidding lawyers from several of the nation’s largest and most prestigious Democratic-aligned law firms from entering federal buildings or having access to classified information.
Trump’s imperial fantasy isn’t just about power—it’s about dismantling democracy itself. Like Polk, he dreams of annexation; like McKinley, he thrives on manufactured conflict; and like Putin, he seeks absolute control.
While working families struggle, Trump and his billionaire cronies are cashing in big time…
Trump’s tough-guy snarl at Washington DC’s Mayor Bowser last week reminds us that homelessness is the direct result of government policies promoted by Trump and Republicans over the past four decades.
The last time American fascists tried this, FDR and Vice President Wallace took them down. Will we?
What happens when the country that once led the free world becomes the enemy of Democracy?
The Republican plan is to win next year’s election this year. Yes, the voting will be bent, jacked and hammered this year, 2025, one year before the official voting. Because this is the year of The Great Purge.
Germans remember well that fateful day ninety-two years ago this week: February 27, 1933. It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack.
A KGB psychological profile of Trump determined he was vulnerable to flattery and not much of a deep thinker, so they told him repeatedly how brilliant he was and that he should run for president in the US.
There’s so much evidence of Trump’s and Musk’s apartheid leanings, it’s pretty much impossible to deny any longer. Which raises the question: Is our media in with the Nazis, or just committed to Not-Seeing them?
History will remember the cowards — will you be one of them?
Welcome to James Madison’s nightmare: “The very definition of Tyranny.”
How America’s ultra-rich dismantled democracy, one Supreme Court ruling at a time.
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