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   Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 05:31:51 JST Thomas Zimmer

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   I dive into the concept of "competitive authoritarianism" in the piece. Whatever the exact label we use, we need to fully grapple with the fact that America has now crossed into territory that is no longer democratic, not even "flawed" or "in peril." America is something else now.

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 05:31:52 JST Thomas Zimmer

     Since I finished this piece not even 48 hours ago, the regime has openly defied several court orders, Trump has announced he will go after the people Biden preemptively pardoned and declared those last-minute pardons "void," and... well, let's discard any residual "Won't/Can't go that far" notions.
     https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/114172306014401440

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.