Three hundred and sixty-five days after Donald Trump placed his hand on the Bible and completed an extraordinary return to power, many historians, scholars and experts say his presidency has pushed American democracy to the brink – or beyond it.
In the first year of Trump’s second term, the democratically elected US president has moved with startling speed to consolidate authority: dismantling federal agencies, purging the civil service, firing independent watchdogs, sidelining Congress, challenging judicial rulings, deploying federal force in blue cities, stifling dissent, persecuting political enemies, targeting immigrants, scapegoating marginalized groups, ordering the capture of a foreign leader, leveraging the presidency for profit, trampling academic freedom and escalating attacks on the news media.
The scale and velocity of what he has been able to accomplish in just a year have stunned even longtime observers of authoritarian regimes, pushing the debate among academics and Americans from whether the world’s oldest continuous democracy is backsliding to whether it can still faithfully claim that distinction.
“In 2025, the United States ceased to be a full democracy in the way that Canada, Germany or even Argentina are democracies,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the prominent Harvard political scientists and authors of How Democracies Die, and the University of Toronto professor Lucan Way, wrote in Foreign Affairs last month. They argued that the US under Trump had “descended into competitive authoritarianism”, a system in which elections are held but the ruling party abuses power to stifle dissent and tilt the playing field in its favor.
A demented, senile, pedophile felon has taken over America and is planning to extend its parasitic presence in the world too.
Oh wait, same disgusting sack of filth.
Don’t give him too much credit. Assholes like Miller and Thiel are also behind this bullshit.
“To the brink…”
Yeah, that’s how brinksmanship works.
It’s NOT illegal to say “with a mortar launcher” because it’s an incomplete sentence.
You mean the same thing we were warning the MAGA fucks about before the election are actually happening? You don’t say? Man, this is a shitty time to be right.
The first sentence is wrong. Trump never touched that Bible. He was probably afraid it would burn him
Its wild the things you forget, when your flooded with so much BS. If Obama didn’t touch the bible they would probably still be talking about it on Fox News.
I might try to use this next time I have to talk to someone conservative. Just wave away whatever they are saying and just say “Yeah but Trump never touched the bible when he took his oath so he isn’t actually the president. Fake President!”
Yeah. The Guardian changed it after I posted it because of that.
It now reads:
Three hundred and sixty-five days after Donald Trump swore his oath of office and completed an extraordinary return to power
haha crazy how predictable some things are when they quite literally tell you what’s going to happen
Of course it is and MAGA fucks are following Project 2025.
Speedrunning for Supply-Side Jesus.
There’s no democracy when a shitstain is running everything like a dictator and his sycophants are too busy wallowing in money after sucking greasy toes. If they weren’t such greedy spineless assclowns then maybe they’d have done something. But they are, so here we are.
The stupidest ugly nasty moronic weak pathetic narcissistic loser is running this country into the ground and they’re happy about it because, after they wash the taste of toes from their mouth, they have a ton of money.
No shit Sherlock.
If his re-election was legitimate, that’s a pretty good argument for just letting it die.
When Americans willingly gave up their democracy for an 80 year old felon rapist pedophile traitor.
Truly the most pathetic ending to a democracy.
Trump is such a vile human being.
The obese imbecile knows he’s dying and thinks/wants to be remembered as a hardman president. And he will be by a few idiots in the back woods of stupidville.
However he will only truly be remembered as the guy who raped many children with his best mate Jeffery Epstein …and then did increasingly idiotic things go try to cover it all up.
That is the legacy that will be left behind when the fat cunt finally does the world a favour and croaks it. Die, piggy, DIE.
American democracy is dead in the water. Insurrection + Trump happening twice proves it. There is no checks or balances. It is an authoritarian state. The people are divided, the house has fallen.
Everything since Reagan has been set up for this moment. It just took a truly evil, narcissistic piece of shit surrounded by sycophants and monsters to seize the opportunity that was created.
- Tracking and arresting people because of their appearance - check
- Prosecuting independent reporting - check
- Creating a de facto monopoly on information - check
- Prosecuting political opponents amd people who resist authoritarianism - check
- Prosecuting magistrates for following the law - check
- Killing protesters - check
- Military expansionism - check
- Personality cult - check
I think you pass
Extra point for changing the meaning of words and inventing a novlang
… and a covfefe.
This ship has sailed. Now everybody has to deal with this shit. Fascism doesn’t know trade barriers
