Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you

[GeorgeGist]

Here's week 20:

Link to tweet

https://www.facebook.com/amy.siskind/posts/10212234152194116

[edhopper]

1. Things aren't subtly changing

They are changing things overtly and in terrible ways.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. to kick it off...

so far Fat Fascist 45 has shown an affinity for:

Walls
travel bans
Papers Please!
gulag (already present but not going to close it.)
internment camps (albeit already present but he shows no signs of ending or limiting them)
relying on partisan media to front his propaganda
gutting agencies and centralizing his power
installing apparatchiks to spy
censoring of scientists on ideological reasons
threatening the free press with law suits
calling the free the enemies of the people
attacking the judiciary
scapegoating
racism
militarism
nepotism and cronyism

I eagerly await his generalissimo uniform, that ought to be hilarious.

[enough]

3. Total impunity for what used to be called "conflict of interest." The concept of

corruption has been obliterated by the Trump family's accession to office. We live in a very big banana republic, and it happened overnight. I think this may turn out to be the most significant blow to our democracy, happening before our eyes, while we pay attention to other things.

[sharedvalues]

6. We live in a banana republic but it started at least with GWB

Krugman has been writing about this since around 2000.

[titaniumsalute]

4. I would say some positive though

Media is fighting back
Resistance is strong
Internet and social media is very powerful for the resistance
Approval ratings in the 30s now
Good judges stepping it up
Disarray in the White House
FBI Investigations
Senate Intel Investigations

[sharedvalues]

7. Yes, though Comey and Burr are SO CRITICAL.

[Honeycombe8]

5. Good idea. Starting w/White House freezing out the press because they are...

"the enemy of the people."

[L. Coyote]

8. I say keep a list of Cabinet members who have committed perjury. F*** the suble stuff.

We need to know who to send to jail immediately when this charade collapses.