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In reply to the discussion: Steve Schmidt of the Lincoln Project Reaches Out to AOC [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Free people unafraid of authorities in their own cars in temporary lines for food are NOT what you should fear if you knew enough to. Good grief. You must have seen people on TV fighting the government in their nations and disappearing and dying -- to get or keep the power of the vote that's your birthright, and what? You wondered why they'd bother? Or indulged a fancy that we don't have the power of the vote either and democracy's dead?
Hungary's parliament (Republicans in congress) recently gave elected President Orban (Trump) the power to rule by decree -- dictator. They also made a it crime punishable by imprisonment to say something bad about him. The language says something that's false, but that's up to the authorities to interpret.
Authorities with the same mindset of the fascist FL governor who sent thugs to raid the home of a whistleblower and take all her electronics to hack them and get the names of others they want to go after, but who, unlike Orban, doesn't have the power to railroad them into prison. Yet.
The Republican Party is now evaluated as far-right authoritarian as Orban's, just not in control. Yet.