The ex-president wants more armed insurrection, encouraging the forcible suppression of opposition at the hands of his paramilitary and, if he had been able to ‘drain the swamp’, at the hands of the military. A sitting US Senator and wannabe POTUS spreads misogyny and preaches reverse discrimination at efforts to align SCOTUS with the diversity of the population. A sitting governor who is the second-leading Republican candidate for POTUS in 2024 is okay with Neo-Nazism in his state. A gubernatorial candidate in Michigan encourages his voters to bring guns to the polls during the next election – you know, just in case he doesn’t win.

Call it capitalism, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, or fascism, the Trumpists will do anything and everything to keep power. Ironically, his backers not in the 3% don’t understand that being a Republican not in the 3% means you are a pawn and don’t count, which is the same as if not worse than being a Democrat. For example, the Trumpster says he’ll pay the legal bills, but he doesn’t even pay his own; his pawns pay.

Vote like your life depends upon it. The American experiment certainly does.

It doesn’t happen like we think it does. No one rolls the tanks. No armies meet in pitched battle. It happens quietly. Little by little. And because so many think it can’t happen, it does happen. Little by little, the rules change. It doesn’t seem shocking or sudden, and that’s the point. Fewer places to vote, longer lines. Don’t worry, they say, we’re just improving the system. They hope we won’t notice the rules are changing because they lost the last election. They hope we just won’t care enough to stop them. They believe they can take America away from us, and we won’t even notice.

We know who they are. We know what they want. The question is: who are we? Do we let them get away with it or do we fight? Democracy is on the ballot.

– The Lincoln Project