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Trump is an authoritarian and authoritarians are inherently insecure and incompetent. They create crises, scapegoat others and conspiracies, and then demand more power to fix the crises they caused.

The worse this gets the more dangerous he'll be.

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For everyone who keeps calling on Trump to lead or "become president," the truth is that not only will that not happen but it's impossible.

Trump is incapable of leading. As an authoritarian, his nature is to explicitly divide, scapegoat, and inflict violence.
There is nothing about Trump that could alleviate suffering or marshal resources for common good. He's president to consolidate power, expedite personal profit, and dismantle government as an impediment to corruption.

You cannot view Trump as a traditional president.
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Jared Yates Sexton
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All right.

We have to talk about Betsy DeVos, why your kids are being shoved back into schools without a plan, the intentional destruction of public education, white supremacy and the Evangelical Right.

Here's what I learned writing AMERICAN RULE.

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First things first, we have to stop treating the Trump Administration like it's a traditional administration.

It isn't. It's a systematic, anti-administration that is obsessed with dismantling government as a public good. That's what it's doing.

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Betsy DeVos was picked as Secretary of Education specifically because she is anti-public education.

She has spent her energy and wealth intentionally destroying the public school system. That's why she's in charge now. So she can destroy it.

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What’s important to note here is that QAnon is a fascistic cult that runs on refurbished antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The GOP has been working with these types of extremists for decades now and that partnership is part of why we’re in this crisis now.
The GOP has courted white extremists of every stripe by signaling with tested rhetoric, passing white-specific legislation, and trafficking openly in New World Order/white paranoia in its speeches and media.

Of course they’re infected with QAnon. It’s who they are.
People have wanted to pretend the GOP was just a conservative political body, but it grew into a white-identity fascistic movement. End. Stop.

The conspiracies, the cult of personality, the misinformation. All of it. Features of a fascistic movement.
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People need to understand that Donald Trump is an authoritarian and that authoritarians are defined by their insecurity and incompetence.

They are incapable of forming communities, will inevitably make a problem worse, and then find any scapegoat.

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This vilification of Dr. Anthony Fauci was always going to happen. Authoritarians HATE experts because their very existence is proof that the authoritarian doesn't possess all knowledge as a sole entity.

What we're watching now is the desperate scapegoating stage.

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What I'm talking about is a predictable cycle that occurs with authoritarians.

They will fail. They will lie. They will scapegoat experts, vulnerable populations, and then claim a conspiracy against them.

They'll use that "conspiracy" to demand more power.

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