Thread by @StefSimanowitz

"Once an autocrat gets into office, it is very hard to get them out. They will disregard term limits, they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it." @sarahkendzior

Sound familiar?
#ThisIsNotADrill

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1125022414860095490

"The most sophisticated tyrannies are ones that have a showman as their frontman. Clown or blowhard. Jester or villain. The type of showman doesn’t matter. Their audience will love them just the same."
(Emerson Warner, 1949)
Via @mdsharpe2

“I think that people are going to get hurt. People are going to get killed.”

Across the US, far-right militias are preparing for the #USElection & for post-election civil unrest

@60Minutes’ @LaurieSegall reports on one of the largest, in rural Michigan.

"The nightmares came home in the form of the #Trump admin: a white supremacist kleptocracy linked to a transnational crime syndicate, using digital media to manipulate reality & destroy privacy, led by a sociopath, backed by fanatics preying on the most vulnerable" @sarahkendzior

The Reichstag fire in 1933 shows how quickly a modern republic can be hijacked & transformed into an authoritarian regime

Beneath the chaotic headlines generated each day by #Trump & @BorisJohnson, are other forces - with links to the far-right - at work?

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1311298513645563905?s=20

"A lot of people say he's one of the most powerful men in Europe"

This isn’t hyperbole

Nigel Farage is the closest person in Europe to the most powerful person in the world. A man about to ‘win’ an historic second term

This is a trans-Atlantic stitch-up

“At a certain point, it goes to Congress...We have an advantage if we go back to Congress”

Trump has repeated lies about postal-vote fraud & said that the count will “take forever”

By crying fraud in certain States, Trump can steal the election @RBReich