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Americans, Stop Waiting for America to Look Like What You Think Fascism Will Look Like
America is tragically deceptive right now.
You can go out today in your local community, and everything looks perfectly normal: the sun is shining, pickleball courts are packed, people are out on restaurant patios having lunch, and kids are playing in elementary school playgrounds.
It doesn’t look like a fascist dictatorship, it doesn’t feel like a failing democracy, which is why we’re in such trouble right now.
Too many people here are waiting for some horrific, visible marker that tells them authoritarianism is here: a declaration of Martial Law, tanks rolling down city streets, a violent…
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