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Out of time: Expert says America may be nearing its point of no return
Fascism Does Not Arrive Empty-HandedOmer Aziz’s point, as reported here, is not that Trump invented authoritarian politics. It is that Trump is a vehicle for a project already comfortable using constitutional machinery against dissidents, journalists, and political enemies. That matters because the story is not about one man’s pathology. It is about which institutions are willing to be turned.The State Is the PointThe decisive power in this story is not the street performer waving Nazi symbols. It is the executive apparatus, prosecutors, police, and state governments that can be pointed at…
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