How close are we to a dictatorship?

[kentuck]

I think we can agree that Trump will not be held accountable by the Congress or Senate for anything that he does.

The question may still be out to what extent he controls the Supreme Court?

Some may say we are already there?

With control of the Legislature, I think it is safe to say that we are at least half-way there. Few doubt that Trump wants to be an autocrat, or a dictator. If he has his way, he would prefer to be a cruel, malevolent dictator.

No one really knows how the Supreme Court will rule when Trump takes his next case to them? We would like to think they would be like all other Supreme Courts, and defend the Constitution and the rule of law.

But, that may be a bit naive?

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. Well, they set the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds after the inauguration... (n/t)

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. "Close" is in the rearview mirror.

MAGA controls WH, Senate, US House and the courts.

Soon we will be known as Trumpland, but I will always call him pig Felon47.

Some of us said this would happen YEARS ago and warned people.

[Meowmee]

3. At what point does everyone acknowledge it is a corrupt court now?

“We would like to think they would be like all other Supreme Courts, and defend the Constitution and the rule of law.”

That would be dumb, they will rubber stamp 99% of what he wants and have proven that already.

[JCMach1]

4. He is kneecapping Federal Governance

Notice I said governance, not government in an effort to center all power on a central executive the ideologically controlled.

[unblock]

5. I would say we're there already. It's a somewhat inefficient dictatorship at the moment

But they are getting rid of the impediments to their edicts.

Soon much of the people in control of the federal bureaucracy (much more than just the department head) will be obedient toadies who will implement dear leader's wishes and stifle dissent and inconvenient facts and even push out propaganda with the stamp of official legitimacy.

I don't see any real mechanism to stop further descent into the abyss. It would take a *massive* resistance movement, which I don't see happening.

[Permanut]

6. If the military caves, we need to reset the doomsday clock..

to one second.