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Critics have likened the display to the type of state spectacle more often seen in autocratic nations.

This is also a real turn in terms of the completely autocratic way in which Department of Homeland Security staff responded to the incident.

Since his temperament is dictatorial by nature, much of his agenda is naturally autocratic.

Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat recently warned that the speed of Donald Trump and his forces’ attacks on democracy and civil society is more like a coup than autocratic capture.

Why believe that given Donald Trump and his forces’ autocratic and increasingly fascist and authoritarian assaults on democracy and the rule of law, there will even be “free and fair” elections in 2026 and beyond?