Marianne Birthler: "Something is overturning – former civil rights activist compares events in the USA with the GDR

The "buckley of American elites before the Trump administration reminds Marianne Birthler of behaviors during the GDR period. The former civil rights activist speaks of a "moral constraint."

Former civil rights activist and former head of the Stasi Records Agency, Marianne Birthler, warns of a US slide into dictatorship. "The United States is still formally a democracy, but there are a number of points where one can say: something is tipping," Birthler told the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit." Asked whether the Trump administration's actions amount to something like a revolution from above, Birthler said: "You could also call it a coup,…