Obama has a terrifying warning for the future of our country

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday said Americans are "dangerously close" to living in a fully autocratic nation, and urged the institutions President Donald Trump is going after in order to suppress dissent and force compliance with his agenda to fight back, The New York Times reported.

Obama made the comments in a conversation in Connecticut with historian Heather Cox Richardson in which he said that under Trump, the United States is "drifting into something that is not consistent with American democracy." Obama said that the U.S. is becoming more like autocrat Viktor Orban's Hungary, where it is now prohibited to be LGBTQ+ in public and the government is seeking to squash dissent and independent media, as well as ban any organizations that Orban views as a threat.

“We’re not there yet completely, but I think that we are dangerously close to normalizing behavior like that," Obama said. "And we need people both outside government and inside government saying, ‘Let’s not go over that cliff because it’s hard to recover.’”

Obama added that law firms and universities—which Trump is seeking to force into submission by pulling their funding and hampering their business—will have to sacrifice profits in order to keep the country from sliding into an illiberal society.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/18/2328763/-Obama-has-a-terrifying-warning-for-the-future-of-our-country

[Karasu]

1. With all due respect to President Obama, we're no longer "drifting", we're running towards that destination at breakneck

speed. But everything else he said is true. Orban's fascist Hungary is indeed the blueprint. American conservatives love that fucking shit.

Chris Murphy is absolutely correct when he says we don't have two years to prevent this from happening.

[Cosmocat]

2. its pretty much on the timeline I envisioned

They had four years to sit around all day and plan for and get geeked up for what they would do when they got another cut. I am sure he and the rest of them regretted that they played within the norms as much as the did the first time and knew they were going to come out fast and just level the whole thing as soon as possible.

I thought we would see Ds pols getting hornswoggled and arrested and acts of stochastic terror by the summer of year one and we already have hit those thresholds, and I knew the media was going to completely roll over and it has.

Not sure how it will look, but they have no intentions of just standing by and chancing dems getting into power in either chamber of congress in the mid terms. Either on the front end with controlling the elections in some way, or the Rs in congress refusing to seat them.

Then ... presidential election will be whatever it will be to keep DT in charge.

This battle was lost man times over the half century, they incrementally got things to this point - the country failed repeatedly to push back on right wing fuckery and just relentlessly indulged it.