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The United States loses its status as a liberal democracy: ‘Trump is aiming for a dictatorship’
(english.elpais.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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This might be an unpopular opinion, but fuuuck, at least give us until the midterms.
Declaring this now just gives it more power to take hold.
I do disagree. We have to take it back but I don't see any value in pretending because we might reverse what has happened.
Electoral politics got us into to this mess. Neither party is very interested in getting us out of it.
Midterms will be either rigged or there will be a "state of emergency" or whatever.
Seems like a lot of people forgot what happened and what almost happened on January 6th. I strongly doubt power will be handed over.