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How “soft fascism” will come to America if the Republicans control the federal government come January 2025

This probably gets it right:

[Professor] Kitschelt [Duke, Political Science] cited Orban as a model for Trump in achieving the goals of:

  • Undermining the professionalism and neutrality of the judiciary, starting with the attorney general’s office.

  • Undermining the nonpartisanship of the military, using the military for domestic purposes to repress civil liberties and liberal opposition to the erosion of American democracy.

  • Redeploying the national domestic security apparatus — above all, the F.B.I. — for partisan purposes.

  • Passing libel legislation to harass and undercut the liberal media and journalists, with the objective to drive them economically out of business, while consolidating conservative media empires and social websites.

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