According to a Canadian political professor, the U.S. may be under rightwing dictatorship before the end of this decade. He is calling on his government to plan for America’s collapse.
Thomas Homer Dixonon’s warning centers on Donald Trump’s possible run for the presidency in 2024. Republican-held legislatures are refusing to recognize a Democratic win.
‘By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence,’ Homer-Dixon, director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail.
“By 2030 or sooner the country could be run by a right-wing dictatorship.”
Homer Dixonon used Fox News and fringe Republicans, such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, who spread conspiracies and was banned permanently from Twitter over the weekend. He also highlighted the availability of many guns in America.
A Trump victory in 2024 could trigger the collapse of American democracy, warns Canadian professor of politics Thomas Homer-Dixon
Homer-Dixon stated that his experience of studying social collapse and violent conflict over 40 years meant that he was able to recognize warning signs from the U.S. politics
In his essay published by the Globe and Mail, Homer-Dixon said the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol showed how ‘the Trump cult’ saw itself as the only way to defend American values
“A severe storm is approaching from the south and Canada is not prepared for it,” he said. “Over the past year, our focus has been diverted to the problems of Covid-19 and reconciliation as well as the rapid effects of climate change,” he stated.
We must now focus our attention on the pressing problem of what we can do to prevent the imminent collapse of American democracy. It is essential that we fully recognize the severity of this danger.
“If Donald Trump wins, the political and economic risks that our country faces will not be diminished even in the most optimistic scenario.”
Former president, 75 years old, has often hinted at his plans to run again for the White House in 2024.
Homer Dixon said that as an expert on violent conflict and having published about genocide and social breakdown, it was obvious what the signs were.
“We should not dismiss these possibilities because they are too absurd or unimaginable to believe,” he said.
“In 2014 the notion that Donald Trump would be elected president would also have been absurd to most people. Today the world is full of the unbelievable and it’s all too common.
Trump’s possible return to the White House could be the beginning.
Homer Dixonon explained that when he returns to office, “he’ll become the wrecking ball which demolishes democracy” but it would produce a political as well as societal shambles.
He’ll still be able, though, to target harassment and dismissal of his opponents in the state, as well as the bureaucrats officials technocrats that oversee non-partisan functioning core institutions and adhere to the rule and law.
“Then, the stage will be set to allow a more managerially capable ruler after Donald Trump to order the chaos that he has created.”
He added that analysts he consulted offered a number of possible models: ‘Viktor Orban’s Hungary, with its coercive legal apparatus of “illiberal democracy”; Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, with its chronic social distemper and administrative dysfunction; or Vladimir Putin’s Russia with its harsh one-man hyper-nationalist autocracy.’
Trump issued a statement Monday supporting Orban’s reelection campaign.
He stated that Viktor Orban of Hungary really loves Hungary and wishes safety for his people.
“He did a great job protecting Hungary from illegal migration, creating jobs and trade and should continue doing so during the next election.”
A new poll also revealed how much Americans have lost faith in democracy.
According to the Washington Post University of Maryland survey published over the weekend, around a third of respondents believed violence against government could be justified.
Trump has endorsed the re-election campaign of foreign leaders for the first time since he backed Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.
The Washington Post interviewed 1,101 Americans between December 17th and December 19th.
WaPo asked Americans to vote on whether it was ever legal for them to use violence against their government. The poll took place between December 19th and December 19.
It could happen, 34% of the respondents believed it was possible and 62% said that it’s never justifiable.
Homer-Dixon concluded America’s result was an eventual lurch to fascism.
It’s acceptable to use F words. David Frum, conservative commentator, said that Trumpism is increasingly likened to European fascism because of its disregard for law and glorifying violence.
The latest Right-wing meme is a good example of evidence: Popular holiday photos feature Republican politicians with their families and children sitting at their Christmas tree, smiling while they cradle shotguns, assault rifles and pistols.
“Those guns are not just symbols. Trump’s cult is the only patriotic party that can defend American history and values against traitorous Democrats who are dependent on cosmopolitan elites or minorities, and do not understand and support American values.
These terms must be used to understand the Jan. 6th storming at the U.S. Capitol. The people involved didn’t think they were attacking U.S. democracy – although they unquestionably were. They believed that their patriotic actions were necessary to save the democracy.