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With Ed Spire, Restore Our Democracy Lead
Trump’s Presidency and the New Resistance to Strongman Politics
When Authoritarianism Stops Being Abstract
Monday , April 27th @7pm Central / 8 pm Eastern
_For years, warnings about democratic erosion felt abstract. Under Donald Trump, authoritarian tactics have become concrete — attacks on institutions, governing by personal decree, escalating tariff wars, and the extreme deployment of military force._
That concreteness is frightening many citizens, elites, and institutions into action, both in the US and in Europe.
What we are witnessing has a name: authoritarianism. Scholars of democracy recognize the playbook — undermine courts, intimidate the press, concentrate power in one person, and rule by fear and loyalty rather than law.
Millions of Americans are seeing it in real time, and resistance is growing, not shrinking.
From courtrooms to town squares to legislative chambers — here at home and across Europe — people who once stayed on the sidelines are stepping forward. The question is no longer whether people are alarmed. It is how we turn that alarm into organized, sustained power.
Come learn how this is happening — and how you can help make it happen faster.
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