Wie Amerika vermeiden kann, Russland zu werden

“Americans seem to be awakening, if only slowly, to the magnitude and nature of the threat they face,” Garry Kasparov writes: [https://theatln.tc/hxEdJSbx](https://theatln.tc/hxEdJSbx)

“Exactly 20 years ago, I retired from professional chess to help Russia resist Putin’s budding dictatorship,” Kasparov continues. “People were slow to grasp what was happening there too: ‘Putin’s bad, but surely he’ll stop short of’—and you can fill in the blank with a dozen things he did to destroy Russia’s fragile democracy and civil society, many of which Trump is doing or attempting to do in America today.”

Russia was just eight years removed from Soviet totalitarianism when it elected Vladimir Putin. “Americans, by contrast, have a well-stocked toolbox with which to defend their democratic institutions, if only they would use it,” Kasparov writes. “The press is still free; its only limitations are self-imposed. The economy is strong, even though Trump is working hard to put a stop to that … American federalism and the separation of powers are not trivial for a would-be autocrat to overcome. Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.”

“The American opposition should spend less time criticizing the content of the administration’s executive actions … than focusing on its suspect methods,” Kasparov writes. “Making opposition to the policies the centerpiece of resistance also risks missing the point. America is hurtling toward the loss of its democratic institutions and the establishment of an authoritarian state where there will be no civil discussion of these issues at all: That’s what a principled opposition must fight with its full might.”

“Americans should invest their time and money fighting in the arena where political power still lies: with the American people and in Washington, D.C., with the handful of Republican representatives who could put a stop to the power grab,” Kasparov continues at the link in our bio. “Go after the weakest links and call them out. Promise to support them against Musk’s threats to fund primary challenges if they defy him … Don’t give up on the levers of political power prematurely. Use them, or they will disappear.”

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Communist desperation at his own country’s expense. Putin is a dictator. Trump will be out of office in three years. That’s democracy. And for those of you in the fear mongering “he might run again” FDR did it during WWII so unless there is a national need; it won’t happen.