While #Biden has so far avoided naming #Trump during his time abroad, he has increasingly warned of the dangers posed by the kind of #authoritarian & #isolationist impulses the fmr president has embraced in his push to return to the #WhiteHouse. #POTUS, who has said in the past that America’s very #democracy is at stake in the coming #election, …[has juxtaposed] #DDay’s 80th anniversary to sound the alarm about the advance of #antidemocratic forces across the globe.
A 2nd #Trump admin could #weaponize existing government agencies to dismantle democracy itself.
This article is part of “Project 2025: The Plot Against #America,” a Nation special issue devoted to unpacking the right’s vast & chilling program for a 2nd Trump term.
Instead of focusing on #VoterSuppression, the manipulation of #election processes by domestic & foreign agents, & other genuine threats to #democracy, Mandate for Leadership’s authors would have these agencies do the bidding of #Trump & his #MAGA movement. That’s a formula for giving Trump the #authoritarian#power he seeks—not through an explicit crushing of electoral democracy, but by “reforming” it in precisely the way that the nonpartisan group Protect Democracy warns is most dangerous.
#auspol#authoritarian
Australia shares its obsession in punishing whistleblowers with the #US and the #UK. It is:
"A country in which you cannot tell the truth. There are no meaningful protections for the people who do. The punishments that await them are extravagant and deliberately cruel".
By regularly using vicious tropes about #undocumentedImmigrants and other domestic enemies within, #Trump is trying to acclimate voters to the ugliest forms of #authoritarian, dehumanizing language.
#Trump warned that Biden & family could face criminal prosecutions unless the US supreme court awards Trump #immunity in his own criminal trials
Interview with Time magazine, Trump painted a startling picture of his 2nd term including he may let states monitor #pregnant women to enforce #abortion laws.
Eric Cortellessa of Time says Trumps plans are “an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world”
#Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the #UnitedStates, & leverage the #Ukraine#war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, acc/to a secret Foreign Ministry document.
…tougher & blunter…than the public #ForeignPolicy doc, the secret addendum, dated April 11,2023, claims the #US is leading a coalition of “unfriendly countries” aimed at weakening #Russia bc Moscow is “a threat to Western global hegemony.” It says the outcome of Russia’s #war in #Ukraine will “to a great degree determine the outlines of future #WorldOrder,” a clear indication Moscow sees the result of its invasion as bound w/its ability—& other #authoritarian nations—to impose its will globally.
Two days ago on #Dutch TV channel #VPRO I watched the documentary "Beyond Utopia", and it left a deep impact on me.
It shows both the terrible plight of all those people that have to flee #authoritarian regimes. Where on their perilous journey, every step is either towards doom or freedom.
And it also shows the unimaginable #oppression that can be laid down onto an entire population and still keep people in line, praising their glorious leader.