Category: Authoritarianism
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The Chicago Apartment Raid: A Full-Blown Paramilitary Incursion
“We’re under siege. We’re being invaded by our own military.” — Darrell Ballard, South Shore resident If someone had described a nighttime assault involving helicopters, drones, flashbangs, and chainsaws, with hundreds of masked agents storming a residential building, I’d have assumed it was a scene from Moscow or Caracas. But it wasn’t. It was Chicago.…
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Trump’s Cognitive Decline and Authoritarianism
When Power and Reality Diverge Most of us know a neighbor, a parent, or a close friend who’s entered a stage of life where age begins to affect how they communicate, move and make decisions. So when we saw all of those same signs in Joe Biden, the slower walk, the occasional pause or repetition,…