A friend asked me today what the end goal of all this was. This is what I told him: The aim is to destroy as many parts of the government as possible, as fast as possible, to make the country a Christian nationalist oligarchy. Trump wants to make a world
April 22nd 2025 Authoritarian Descent Tracker + Resistance Overview Stage 1: Soft Authoritarianism — ✅ COMPLETE * ✅ Disregard of court orders (SCOTUS defied on deportations, Judge Xinis ignored) * ✅ Emergency powers without checks * ✅ Mass disinformation (DOGE data manipulation, conspiracy networks) * ✅ Journalist shadowbanning and targeting (e.g. CBS, NYT suppression, credential removal) * ✅ Legal residents deported without
That moment—the detention of a confirmed U.S. citizen, with valid documentation, after judicial review—is a line that, once crossed, doesn’t get uncrossed. It signals a terrifying precedent: Not only can the government now detain anyone— It can do so while courts stand by helplessly. That’s
1. Courts Have No Independent Enforcement Mechanism * Courts don’t have their own police or jails. They rely on the executive branch—primarily the DOJ—to enforce their rulings. * When the DOJ refuses to prosecute contempt or execute injunctions, the court’s orders become symbolic, not functional. * We are already
Authoritarian Descent Tracker + Resistance Overview Stage 1: Soft Authoritarianism — ✅ COMPLETE * ✅ Disregard of court orders (SCOTUS defied on deportations, Judge Xinis ignored) * ✅ Emergency powers without checks * ✅ Mass disinformation (DOGE data manipulation, conspiracy networks) * ✅ Journalist shadowbanning and targeting (e.g. CBS, NYT suppression, credential removal) * ✅ Legal residents deported without due process (CECOT
April 20th, 2025 Stage 1: Soft Authoritarianism — ✅ COMPLETE * ✅ Disregard of court orders (SCOTUS defied on deportations, Judge Xinis ignored) * ✅ Emergency powers without checks * ✅ Mass disinformation (DOGE data manipulation, conspiracy networks) * ✅ Journalist shadowbanning and targeting (e.g. CBS, NYT suppression, credential removal) * ✅ Legal residents deported without due process (CECOT cases, ICE
In the traditional, tactical sense? Yes. Trump is impulsive, erratic, easily manipulated, and not a strategic genius. He doesn’t run five-step plans. He runs on grievance, loyalty tests, spectacle, and raw domination. But incompetence is not the shield we wish it were. Authoritarian power doesn’t require competence—it
What to do when the world is falling apart—but you still need to live inside it When everything feels like it’s unraveling—politically, socially, economically—it’s easy to get lost in the overwhelm. Fear sharpens. Grief hits like weather. The future feels like a black box with
A short guide to staying safe, smart, and strategic under authoritarian conditions If you’re feeling alarmed, angry, or overwhelmed—you’re not alone. What’s happening in the U.S. is not politics as usual. It’s not “just another bad administration.” It’s the open degradation of legal,
What she’s right about: Some conservatives are waking up to the brutality of the regime, and they are finally naming it Van Hollen getting access to Abrego Garcia matters—symbolically and emotionally, if not structurally Judicial language like Judge Wilkinson’s does represent a principled stand in words Thought
If you're thinking about leaving the United States—or preparing a lifeboat in case you need to—the first decision is where. Below is a short guide to countries that are currently friendly to U.S. citizens, have relatively stable governments, and offer clear visa paths for relocation.
After Descent: Stages of Entrenched Authoritarian Rule This draws from comparative politics, genocide studies, and historical case synthesis (e.g., Levitsky & Ziblatt, Arendt, Snyder, Linz, and Straus). ✅ Stage 4: Consolidation of Loyalty and Erasure of Alternatives * One-party rule (formal or functional) * Electoral theater with no legitimacy * Forced oaths, ideological