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9. You're right: This might just be a trial balloon for what politologists call autocratic breakthrough

Reply to markodochartaigh (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 3, 2025, 11:14 PM

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Fascists, as you know, typically play for keeps - especially a gangster like Cheeto.

And the GOP - the only major party in the first world to meet all 14 criteria for fascism - has been laying the ground work for this since Dubya if not earlier.

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