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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The authoritarian playbook also looks like delegitimizing opposition, threatening media, suing universities, purging NGOs, and demonizing opposition donors. It looks like using immigration enforcement as a consolidation tool, including deploying military forces against state governors’ wishes.

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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

But here’s the critical part for our organizing strategy: Trump is politically weaker than successful autocrats typically are at this stage. The U.S. also has stronger institutional constraints than countries that slid into stable competitive authoritarianism.

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The 22nd Century Initiative @22ci.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Most importantly, US opposition is well-organized, well-financed, and electorally viable. We’re harder to co-opt, repress, or sideline than opposition movements in El Salvador, Hungary, or Turkey were. Our civil society is robust, our resources substantial, and our organizational capacity is real.

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