"Those who monitor democracy across the globe had warned that a second Trump term could endanger America's 240-year experiment with democracy. His opening weeks in office have done nothing to dispel those concerns.

"Trump is using the classic elected authoritarian playbook," said Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth College, who joined more than 800 other political scientists in signing a letter warning that Trump is undermining the rule of law and the basic constitutional principle of checks and balances.

"It's almost embarrassing how crude it is."

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""I feel like I'm living through this twice," said Maria Ressa, a journalist who won a Nobel Prize after being prosecuted by the government of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in 2019, on a call last week about the threat of Trump to democracy.

"What you're seeing is exactly that " think about it as death by a thousand cuts," she said. "You're bleeding so much that, at some point, the body politic dies."

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Thanks again, Trumpers! You've done what no one else could in 2 and half centuries... broken democracy.

this is pretty good... MARA - Make America Russia Again!

"Russia is more WOKE than Trump's America now...

NFKRZ"