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April 25, 2017
Trump Is Creating an Authoritarian Dictatorship - Here's Why
By Daily Kos
By almost every act, Trump is building an oligarchic authoritarian dictatorship. If there is an overarching pattern in the Trump regime's first months, it is a steady move toward oligarchy verging on authoritarian dictatorship.
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Reprinted from www.dailykos.com by bgerber
If there is an overarching pattern in the Trump regime's first months, it is a steady move toward oligarchy verging on authoritarian dictatorship. I am a political scientist by training and I didn't write the above sentence unthinkingly. Putting aside Trump's Russian role model, Putin, the pattern is clear.
Whether intentional or not, the above has the effect of creating an American Presidency very different from any we have ever seen and one that should frighten anyone who understands political, economic and social history.
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