For the 1st time in US history, the leader of an insurrection pardoned insurrectionists. Trump’s alliance w/paramilitary actors is part of how he’s digging in, cementing power, & laying groundwork to crush political competition. This is the Entrenchment Agenda
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Levitsky and Way warned about this in 2020:
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-new-competitive-authoritarianism/
Same same publishing this month in Foreign Affairs:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump
It’s time for the felon, criminal, Constitutionally disqualified Russian asset & political thief & his cronies (from Project2025 & loyalists) to go!
He is illegitimate.
When criminals rule the land, no one is safe.
https://bsky.app/profile/mousemedium.bsky.social/post/3lgqzddcxfk2o