The fact that you highlight Trump as particularly authoritarian and keeping him out of office in 2024 as a priority shows that this is a hopelessly mindkilled effort.
This is an opinion that even some people who Trump appointed himself hold. Geoffrey S. Berman is the latest person who described it.
Trump right now makes the question of whether or not someone agrees that the 2020 election was fraudulent as the test of whether or not he supports the person. That’s a filter that will allow him to appoint people in a way that reduces the pushback that he got in his last administration when he tried to do authoritarian things like pushing Berman.
The fact that you highlight Trump as particularly authoritarian and keeping him out of office in 2024 as a priority shows that this is a hopelessly mindkilled effort.
This is an opinion that even some people who Trump appointed himself hold. Geoffrey S. Berman is the latest person who described it.
Trump right now makes the question of whether or not someone agrees that the 2020 election was fraudulent as the test of whether or not he supports the person. That’s a filter that will allow him to appoint people in a way that reduces the pushback that he got in his last administration when he tried to do authoritarian things like pushing Berman.
I’m curious what examples of highly authoritarian threats you see besides trump, and how trump ranks among them
No reason to think he’s better or worse than other politicians, but he’s certainly very different.
In a world of almost omnimalevolent conformity, it’s strange to see the possibility that things could be different.