President Trump: is he an autocrat in waiting?

We must embrace democracy.

In waiting? He seems to be quite active at it.

If yesterday’s massive nationwide protests (all but ignored by the mainstream media here) are any indication, I would not be surprised if later in the summer we got to a revolutionary crisis at least on the scale of 1968, maybe even more.

He's gone straight in on trying to take over everything and is not meeting enough resistance. It looks like plenty of people turned out yesterday, but the Dems need to get more vocal. Of course we see different coverage in the UK. There was a lot about the protests on Mastodon, but I didn't see much on Hive. I do think Hive leans right a bit, but most people will not be extremists.

Would you travel to the US right now? I wouldn't.

He certainly does seem to be trying to install himself as Dictator.. I believe the will be several attempts on his life during this stretch.. and when the impact from the tariff kick it.. it will be to late.. the damage will already be done.

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I give him 12 months

What we’re witnessing today in America is “not so much a political revolution as a cultural collapse”

Spot on. This is the most startling part of the Trump phenomenon for me, as a citizen of the U.S. People elected him, knowing who he was. Knowing what he promised. For some reason, many people in my country want a strongman. They fear change--cultural, demographic--more than they fear losing the legacy of democracy. They fear the 'other side', however they perceive that, more than they fear losing their own liberty.

They have to first get visited in their homes late at night because of an errant social post. Or they have to experience a family member being arrested and held without explanation before they realize what they have given up. They don't grasp what due process means to them, personally. They are willing to see it stripped from others, and never suspect that action also applies to themselves.

Scary times.