Obama has a terrifying warning for the future of our country [View all]
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.
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