In Episode 263 [14] of the CounterVortex podcast [15], Bill Weinberg deconstructs the moves by the unconstitutional [16] Trump regime to consolidate a dictatorship over the United States—attempting [17] to seize [18] autocratic [19] control [20] over [21] the bureaucracy [22], and (in a case of fascist pseudo-anti-fascism [23]) weaponizing [24] concern with anti-Semitism [25] to suppress free speech [26] while institutionalizing indifference [27] to (and consciously enflaming [28]) all other forms of racism. And this as Elon Musk (a private-sector oligarch [29] given extra-legal power [30] over government functions) tells a rally [31] of the Nazi-adjacent [32] Alternative für Deutschland [33] that Germany has "too much of a focus on past guilt." It took Hitler mere weeks to establish a dictatorship [34] after coming to power [35], whereas with Mussolini it took some three years [36]. We shall soon find out how long it will take in the United States—unless the country can find the wherewithal to resist.
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