“The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism,” Garrett Graff, the American historian and author, wrote in August. “In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here.”
One awakes to new horrors each day. And it is difficult to grasp – and painful to realize – just how far gone we are, and how quickly it has happened.
Makes it sound like a natural disaster, Trump’s name only appears three times in the body text of the article.
Trump may be the catalyst, but he couldn’t do anything alone. He has hundreds of MAGA federal officials and tens of millions of Americans propping him up, as well as benefiting from a spineless (with one notable recent exception) Democratic Party that willingly became the face of a broken status quo.
Can’t put direct blame on Dear Leader, after all.