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    „Trump strebt eine Diktatur an“. Das ist das Urteil des glaubwürdigsten Demokratiewächters der Welt | Martin Gelin


    „Trump strebt eine Diktatur an“. Das ist das Urteil des glaubwürdigsten Demokratiewächters der Welt | Martin Gelin

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

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    1. AWCuiper on

      This raises two questions:

      1.Can democracy be defended by democratic means?

      2.Are people too stupid for democracy?

    3. WetFinsFine on

      Federalist Society / Heritage Foundation want this – djt’s just their patsy, but bad enough…cuz his egomaniacal narcissism is the perfect personality trait required to see it through

      The US midterms are *globally* critical – fact.

    5. Toadfinger on

      Which everyone with common sense in America said would happen long before the 2024 election.

    7. Ask_DontTell on

      Trump wants the US to be like China where the people are pretty much to do whatever they want – shop, watch movies, travel – as long as they obey the gov’t and Trump also wants it to be like Russia where the President and friends of the President own and control everything.

    9. Historical-Cash-96 on

      We really needed an official global democracy watchdog from sweden to tell us what the man himself has literally been screaming into a microphone at his rallies for the last ten years tbh. like yeah, we know dude.

    10. Vegetable_Brother375 on

      The article points out that he signed 225 executive orders his first year while systematically firing inspector generals just to replace them with pure loyalists. the fact that establishment conservatives are still just quietly going along with this hoping it magically works out is genuinely terrifying ngl.

    11. MatchNo8215 on

      Saying he is „aiming“ for a dictatorship implies he is still in the planning phase tbh. looking at how completely marginalized the legislative branch is right now, i’m pretty sure we are already well past aiming and currently in the „redecorating the autocracy“ phase lmao.

    14. sinful_wink on

      When the world’s most respected democracy watchdogs say it, maybe it’s not just political noise. The experts are sounding alarms.

    15. jjaime2024 on

      If you go back a couple years he did seem to think it would happen with in a couple years.

    16. PeopleB4Profit on

      The insistence that every election is/has been rigged or fixed was one of the first signs of the coming destruction of American Democracy by the republicans and **WEALTHY DONORS!** (Democratic party inaction and lack of proactive remedies suggest they too may be in on it) This is not out of the blue or anything new, UNREGULATED CAPITALISM is **TYRRANY**, the **TYRRANY** we are experiencing now. Citizens United!

      Project 2025 is an „Act of War“ with the goal; „To destroy every democratic organization, every democracy and all democracy supporting people in the world“!
      This goal was stated back in 2023. Even a second grader in the Alabama School System understands this phrase, how come the media and dems have not caught on.

      The USA is under attack by the republican party and mega donors to make this goal a reality! They call it a „**BLOODLESS COUP“** and are changing 250 years of American History to match a FOX upside down world. Until the trump and murdoch families are seized, tried and publicly punished for this mess, followed by **DONORS and their families**, and all involved nothing changes and the next time will be worse.

      Don’t worry though, pugs will LOSE the midterms, dems will get a slim majority and do NOTHING or get a huge majority and visit the Heritage Foundation for legislation to continue Project 2025! If they were going to do anything every American would know what it was by now. Other than blaming trump and ignoring the real enemies they do not offer much.

    21. shagadelicrelic on

      They wrote an entire book outlining how they were going to do it but somehow some people are still shocked

    22. Poam27 on

      If we’re going to have a dictatorship, can we at least get somebody mentally and physically fit? Somebody with universal charisma? Why do we have to dumpster dive for a dictator?

    27. buenonocheseniorgato on

      When the checks and balances are out the window, you get a dictatorship and a dictator.

      Guess what. They’ve been out the window for a good while now.

    28. Late_Sherbet5124 on

      Our population is strung along with this idea that they’ll become millionaires in the near future. I’m reminded of this quote often attributed to John Steinbeck: „Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires“.

      We’ve become a culture that idolizes the rich regardless of their warped sense of entitlement to keeping themselves wealthy. We’ve been complacent and handed over our thinking to those who have no regard for our general welfare. „They’re rich so they must be smart. We should blindly follow them and accept their robber baron decisions.“. Hence the rise of oligarchy and fascism.

    29. uksid1976 on

      Im not even sure if its a 1 person dictatorship, he might just be aiming for a 1 party dictatorship.

    31. GeistMD on

      And Republicans can’t wait to push their noses to the dirt to bow down to him.

    32. AdTiny2166 on

      One thing is clear, if we ever get past this we need to install safeguards to ensure that democracy isn’t dependent on the goodwill of those in power.

    33. Low-Finding-3414 on

      >A single bright spot in the assessment of the US is that free and open elections are still being held, and the electoral system “remains stable for now”. But executive orders since Trump came to power point to new risks for the electoral system.

      I’ll hang onto this

    34. QuiGonColdGin on

      He is, and not just because of a warped and over-inflated sense of self, or ego. It’s because clinging onto absolute power at all costs is the only way to prevent himself from ending up in prison for the rest of his life, both at the hands of his own country’s tribunal, but also now that of the world. He will do anything to avoid that outcome, as we’ve already witnessed.

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