A year into Trump’s return, his conduct this year alone qualifies him as authoritarian by any serious definition.
Politicizing independent institutions:
Trump is blocking the full release of the Epstein files. The law says release them. He refuses. The DOJ is protecting pedophiles at Trump’s direction.
Spreading disinformation:
He calls protests in Minnesota and Portland “insurrections.” They are not. He lies so force looks justified.
Aggrandizing executive power:
He flatly ignores Congress and drops U.S. military force in Venezuela because constitutional limits mean nothing to him.
Quashing dissent:
Federal agents rough up protesters, threaten reporters, and flood the streets in Minneapolis and Portland to teach the public what happens when you resist.
Scapegoating vulnerable communities:
Immigrants and their defenders get blamed, raided, shot at, and demonized so cruelty looks like order.
Corrupting elections:
In a January 2026 Reuters interview, he said we should not even have midterm elections. He is saying the quiet part out loud.
Stoking violence:
He sends armed federal forces into cities, escalates conflict, then points to the chaos as proof he needs more power.
The situation is clear. The choice now is to comply or be brave.
We must stop him now.
We have been here before. 1776, 1832, 1848,S1860, 1890’s, 1930’s, until 1965 in the South, 1942 Japanese concentration camps. Democracy can win. 1952,It will require all of us working together.
Common Sense. December 23, 1776
THESE are the times that try men's ( and women’s) souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine. Common Sense
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