Governing with the notion that elections alone will not keep authoritarians at bay means taking seriously the question of how to use power while you have it, ideally how to build that power *beyond just winning elections* to make sure that progressive policies endure and reactionary harms mitigated

Here’s video of the incident

“This is beyond McCarthyism. Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to stop ideas they don’t like, deciding who can speak, write, and even joke,” the ACLU said. “The Trump administration’s actions, paired with ABC’s capitulation, represent a grave threat to our First Amendment freedoms.”

It's always useful to remember that JD Vance examined the public data in 2016 and concluded that he believed victims like Katie Johnson who stated that Trump was a serial sexual assaulter.

"Katie Johnson" (a pseudonym) reportedly dropped her lawsuits because of multiple death threats.

I like this one. Brendon Carr in 2019

I love how people keep saying "We're inching towards" or "We're on the cusp of" a fascist regime

We're in one, and if you think we're not then you're lying to yourself