Rachel Maddow on Bluesky sharing an snippet from New York Times' opinion article 'In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy' with text: "The clearest sign that a democracy has died is that a leader and his party make it impossible for their opponents to win an election and hold power. Once that stage is reached, however, the change is extremely difficult to reverse. And aspiring authoritarians use other excesses, like a cowed legislature and judiciary, to lock in their power.
The United States is not an autocracy today. It still has a mostly free press and independent judiciary, and millions of Americans recently attended the "No Kings" protests. But it has started down an anti-democratic path, and many Americans - including people in positions of power - remain far too complacent about the threat."
[mentions of US politics + cross-posted from Bluesky]
#uspol #politocs #phpol: The Philippines should be taking down notes on what happened to the US rn.
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