The NYT editorial board published (not paywalled) a nice summary of 12 authoritarian measures that mark the decline of democracies. Trump and MAGA elites have engaged in all 12 to variable degrees. It's a long article, but interesting to scan through. Each of the 12 dictator tactics has a democracy-O-meter assessment of how bad that anti-democracy tactic is. Nos. 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12 are shown below just for the halibut. As one would expect, it's all pretty scary stuff. But it's accurate.
My opinion: Slide the red dot to ~60%
of the way toward autocracy
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