Two Reasons Why Trump's Rapid Push Towards Autocracy Will Fail

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8. we have been comparing maga to "authoritarian" movements,

mostly the modern authoritarians. in contrast to democracy.

maybe we need to look at the totalitarian model, and would there be a practical difference between authoritarian battista and "totalitarian" castro?

https://quillette.com/2021/08/24/revisiting-kirkpatrick/

According to Kirkpatrick, the Islamic Revolutionaries and Marxist Sandinistas that came to power in Iran and Nicaragua, respectively, were “totalitarian” groups that were even more oppressive than the tyrants they had replaced. US support for right-wing dictatorships was thus not just strategically justified—it was also morally justified, since traditional autocracies were essentially the lesser of two evils compared to their totalitarian opponents.

it is the religious aspect of trumpism that concerns me. the intolerance of "heresy."