An authoritarian’s using his power to suppress his political opponents is at the very top of his to-do list. This has been proven to be true not just by the fascists of the 20th Century, but for at least the last 2500 years, as Plato observed.
If this weren’t the case, i.e., if what Trump is doing were something that was at least somewhat novel and could have possibly come as a surprise, we could have more sympathy for America’s throwing its democracy into the toilet.
But we’ve seen this movie before, and we all know how it ends.
We have precious little time left to remove him.
