Tyranny Takeover Checklist

How far along are we toward an autocracy run by oligarchs?

I have found little news more chilling than the recent report that scholars and authors Timothy Snyder (On Tyranny), his wife Marci Shore (The Ukrainian Night), and Jason Stanley (How Fascism Works) left Yale University for University of Toronto.

Shore stated, “I sensed that this time, this second Trump election, would be still much worse than the first—the checks and balances have been dismantled,” she wrote. “I can feel that the country is going into free fall.  I fear there’s going to be a civil war.”

One could conjecture that they have little faith that our Constitution will hold.  In my opinion, they are justified.  All of the authoritarian-takeover signs are here, as you’ll see below.  And the only thing preventing that takeover is the Constitution.  But the Constitution is a benign doctrine—if there are few people with the fortitude to enforce it.

It is the people in the two branches which are meant to be the check on Executive power that must decide in this moment to do the right thing.  Otherwise, the Constitution has no power.  With that, I offer this warning...

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