Science Tells Us the U.S. Is Heading toward a Dictatorship

How Trump is exploiting an 'impotent Republican Party' to amass 'immense power'

Educator Ross Rosenfeld tells The New Republic that Trump is exploiting so-called “emergency” powers to create a permanent dictatorship.“The office of dictator was created in the early Roman Republic, when it granted a single person — a prominent and trusted citizen — immense power in times of emergency,” writes Rosenfeld.And of course this power was exploited by the likes of Roman general Sulla, who used that legislative procedure to entrench h…

Science Tells Us the U.S. Is Heading toward a Dictatorship

The red flags abound—political research tells us the U.S. is becoming an autocracy

The Rising Tide of American Authoritarianism Won’t Go Down Without a

It’s no secret that democracy is in decline in the United States. The last few decades have seen an onslaught of 21st-century voter disenfranchisement campaigns, as politicians in states across the country pass restrictive voter ID laws, close polling places en masse, and draw hyper-partisan legislative districts designed to dilute the power of our votes and make it harder to cast a ballot – especially for Black, Brown and other marginalized com…

21st century autocracies no longer act alone: they form global networks to launder money, sell surveillance and destabilize democracies. This is how "Autocracy Inc." operates.

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