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1/Authoritarian's checklist:
☑️Cheat your way into office
☑️Install children in top spots
☑️Steer $100s millions of govt money to family businesses
☑️Repeatedly declare fake emergencies to expand power
☑️Incessantly attack rivals, dissenters
☑️Praise, promote other tyrants
2/Authoritarian's checklist:
☑️Run up mountains of debt
☑️Disable accountability mechanisms
☑️Ride state media propaganda
☑️Corrupt "Justice" to allow lawlessness
☑️Deploy military for domestic purposes
☑️Assassinate inconvenient foreign leaders
3/Authoritarian's checklist:
☑️Invent dangerous "other"
☑️Denigrate free press
☑️Do dirty foreign deals for personal benefit
☑️Have "trials" w/o witnesses/evidence
☑️Attempt to rig re-election
☑️Investigate/jail rival crushing you in the polls
☑️Position child as benign successor
4/And if he successfully corrupts the Senate trial, all that will really be left on the authoritarian's checklist is:

☑️prevent a legitimate election in 2020, paving way for dynastic rule.
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1/Our esteemed Chief Justice is presiding over a "trial" where the defendant has been the arbiter of what witnesses and evidence would be allowed.

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