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US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns
2022-01-04
[THEGUARDIAN] The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor has warned, urging his country to protect itself against the "collapse of American democracy".

"We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine," Thomas Homer-Dixon, founding director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail.

"In 2014, the suggestion that Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
would become president would also have struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace."

Homer-Dixon’s message was blunt: "By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a rightwing dictatorship."

The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.

Trump, he warned, "will have only two objectives, vindication and vengeance" of the lie that his 2020 defeat by Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....
was the result of electoral fraud.

A "scholar of violent mostly peaceful conflict" for more than four decades, Homer-Dixon said Canada must take heed of the "unfolding crisis".

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