We don’t have to get there the exact same way. History can rhyme - dictators have seized power any number of ways and we’ve let the Executive Branch accumulate an *enormous* amount of power

He’s got most of a year to use all that ICE money appropriated last year to hire as many goons as he needs. History shows that you don’t need as many as you’d think - a minority can oppress the majority

Blocked from physically accessing the Capitol by his brown shirts, not constituting a majority and trying to project legitimacy legislating from a Hilton ballroom in Bethesda, MD…

Forewarned is forearmed! Maybe we can anticipate and plan responses

The majority would without hesitation. The branch is already functionally kneecapped. If it was going to assert its co-equal powers, it would have done so by now. Is Johnson going to grow a spine all of a sudden? I wouldn’t bet democracy on it…

Not murdering, just sending home. Like Hitler functionally did after he orchestrated the Reichstag Fire. Trump is talking about the Insurrection Act. That’s one domino among dozens that his admin could use as the “confluence” to derail democracy. The Supreme Court will back him and that’s a wrap

Waiting for the right confluence of events, for his administration to continue to erode norms, etc. Dictators strike when they think the time is right. They aren’t always correct but they’ll try again if given the chance

He illegally dissolves the legislative branch, like any number of aspiring dictators before him

She’s gone on quite the journey over the last ten years!!

I haven’t read one of her posts in ages - sounds like she’s fully in the grift and opining accordingly

#fallout