"I think we can now just say it.
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"I think we can now just say it. The United States of America is no longer a democracy."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy #SupremeCourt
/1https://newrepublic.com/article/200724/trump-bondi-homan-corruption-democracy
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"I think we can now just say it. The United States of America is no longer a democracy."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy #SupremeCourt
/1https://newrepublic.com/article/200724/trump-bondi-homan-corruption-democracy
"The kind of authoritarianism I fear is emerging in the United States, which political scientists call 'competitive authoritarianism,' doesn’t involve the outright criminalization of the opposition or formal martial law. Instead, it depends on perverting the law, modifying and twisting it with the intent of incrementally undermining the opposition’s ability to compete fairly in elections."
~ Zack Beauchamp
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy
/2https://www.vox.com/politics/462076/trump-democracy-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk
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"The kind of authoritarianism I fear is emerging in the United States, which political scientists call 'competitive authoritarianism,' doesn’t involve the outright criminalization of the opposition or formal martial law. Instead, it depends on perverting the law, modifying and twisting it with the intent of incrementally undermining the opposition’s ability to compete fairly in elections."
~ Zack Beauchamp
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy
/2https://www.vox.com/politics/462076/trump-democracy-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk
"Last summer’s presidential immunity decision from the Republican wing of the Roberts’ Court gave the president the power to launch any investigation or prosecution he wanted, with real or fabricated evidence, without any repercussions. Just a year later, we are seeing the unprecedented weaponization of the DOJ."
~ Pema Levy
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy #SupremeCourt #immunity
/3https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/donald-trump-political-prosecutions-supreme-court/
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"Last summer’s presidential immunity decision from the Republican wing of the Roberts’ Court gave the president the power to launch any investigation or prosecution he wanted, with real or fabricated evidence, without any repercussions. Just a year later, we are seeing the unprecedented weaponization of the DOJ."
~ Pema Levy
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy #SupremeCourt #immunity
/3https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/donald-trump-political-prosecutions-supreme-court/
"The Roberts court has failed. The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings. ...
The Roberts court has spent the last 20 years dismantling liberal democracy as Americans have known it. Its rulings have paved the way for the first quasi-dictatorship in the republic’s history."
~ Matt Ford
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #SupremeCourt
/4https://newrepublic.com/article/199773/roberts-court-winning-war-american-democracy
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"The Roberts court has failed. The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings. ...
The Roberts court has spent the last 20 years dismantling liberal democracy as Americans have known it. Its rulings have paved the way for the first quasi-dictatorship in the republic’s history."
~ Matt Ford
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #SupremeCourt
/4https://newrepublic.com/article/199773/roberts-court-winning-war-american-democracy
"Even if Trump vanished tomorrow, the functional stupidity remains. Tens of millions have permanently surrendered their capacity for thought. Another demagogue would simply inherit this ready-made army of the cognitively capitulated. The infrastructure of oppression is built. The precedents are set. The population is primed."
~ Patrick
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"Even if Trump vanished tomorrow, the functional stupidity remains. Tens of millions have permanently surrendered their capacity for thought. Another demagogue would simply inherit this ready-made army of the cognitively capitulated. The infrastructure of oppression is built. The precedents are set. The population is primed."
~ Patrick
"More than three hundred years after the reading revolution ushered in a new era of human knowledge, books are dying.
Numerous studies show that reading is in free-fall. ...
In America, reading for pleasure has fallen by forty per cent in the last twenty years. In the UK, more than a third of adults say they have given up reading."
~ James Marriott
#Trump #MAGA #fascism #education #illiteracy
/6https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
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"More than three hundred years after the reading revolution ushered in a new era of human knowledge, books are dying.
Numerous studies show that reading is in free-fall. ...
In America, reading for pleasure has fallen by forty per cent in the last twenty years. In the UK, more than a third of adults say they have given up reading."
~ James Marriott
#Trump #MAGA #fascism #education #illiteracy
/6https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
"Most remarkably, in late 2024 the OECD published a report which found that literacy levels were “declining or stagnating” in most developed countries. Once upon a time a social scientist confronted with statistics like these might have guessed the cause was a societal crisis like a war or the collapse of the education system.
What happened was the smartphone…."
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"Most remarkably, in late 2024 the OECD published a report which found that literacy levels were “declining or stagnating” in most developed countries. Once upon a time a social scientist confronted with statistics like these might have guessed the cause was a societal crisis like a war or the collapse of the education system.
What happened was the smartphone…."
"Because ubiquitous mobile internet has destroyed these students’ attention spans and restricted the growth of their vocabularies, the rich and detailed knowledge stored in books is becoming inaccessible to many of them. ...
The collapse of reading is driving declines in various measures of cognitive ability."
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"Because ubiquitous mobile internet has destroyed these students’ attention spans and restricted the growth of their vocabularies, the rich and detailed knowledge stored in books is becoming inaccessible to many of them. ...
The collapse of reading is driving declines in various measures of cognitive ability."
"As Walter Ong writes in his book Orality and Literacy, certain kinds of complex and logical thinking simply cannot be achieved without reading and writing. ...
As books die, we seem to be returning to these 'oral' habits of thought. Our discourse is collapsing into panic, hatred and tribal warfare. Anti-scientific thought thrives at the highest level of the American government."
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