🤔Sound familiar?

❌Federal force vs. states
❌ICE raids, National Guard
❌Tax cuts for the rich
❌Overriding state authority

The Founders risked hanging for less. Today? The Declaration is like a “how-to” manual for power grabs.

👉What would the Founders say about today’s leaders? #july4th #merica

11/ The lesson: Vigilance, coalition-building, and defending institutions are vital to resisting authoritarian drift. History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.

9/ Historians warn: While contexts differ, the playbook-emergency powers, loyalist purges, media attacks, and scapegoating-remains dangerous. Democracy erodes not by coup, but by legalistic power grabs

8/ No large paramilitary force backs Trump as the SA did for Hitler, but his encouragement of groups like the Proud Boys shows a similar willingness to threaten constitutional order.

7/ Key difference: U.S. democracy, though wounded, still resists. Courts and parts of the press remain independent. In 1933 Germany, democracy collapsed within months.