Thread by @JYSexton

The President of the United States is sitting in the Oval Office floating the idea of a full-scale military coup.

He probably won’t try it, but we’re primed for an authoritarian moment. If it was someone more competent or a closer election we’d be in a whole lot of trouble.

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that Trump is a precursor to a more competent, more ideologically-driven fascism. The GOP is enabling this, profiting from it, as are the wealthy and powerful.

Things are not okay. And they could get very, very bad.

Economic crisis, continuing alienation and radicalization, and shrinking resources from climate catastrophe will only worsen the situation. If we don’t recognize that fascism is growing every day and that this seditious behavior is real...there’s no telling what it’ll become.

I keep saying, this ongoing coup is simultaneously a grift and an antidemocratic project. There’s an economic incentive to destabilize culture and undermine our democracy. Even as people say the danger is passed and the system worked, it’s getting worse.