“To actually change the nature of #politics, to move beyond the current state of affairs ( #competitiveauthoritarianism) to something else, to #fascism, #Trump needs another kind of #conflict.”
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mfp45v7rbs2o
#CompetitiveAuthoritarianism
Jedoch existiert in den USA dank Donald #Trump keine #Demokratie mehr, sondern laut Historikern ein #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism also ein auf Wettbewerb ausgerichteter #Autoritarismus
Man könnte im deutschen vielleicht auch von Partikularen #Autoritarismus sprechen, denn eigentlich existiert in den USA oekonomisch aufgrund der #Vermögensungleichheit kein Wettbewerb mehr, sondern #Privilegierung. Dazu passt auch die #BallroomPolicy also #Refeudalisierung als Denkschule hinter dem Autoritarismus
>Trump sollte sie reich machen - jetzt sind sie ARBEITSLOS<
Es ist #Halloween, doch die Politik braucht nicht ein einzelnes Datum, um Horror erzeugen zu können
Diese Podcast - Folge zeigt den Zusammenhang von fehlender politischer Bildung, politischem Desinteresse & dem Wählen gegen die eigenen Interessen auf, mit dem Resultat eines #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism
Es zeigt auch auf, dass Akteure aus der Oekonomie nicht automatisch gute #Politik gestalten
>Wie viel Nazi-Ideologie steckt in Trumps USA? | #Possoch | BR24<
#Vibeshift #PoliticalCommunication
Zur inhaltlichen Einordnung der zweiten #Trump - Administration
Stichworte: #Gleichschaltung & #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism
also kompetitiver #Autoritarismus
US former spies are worried.
"The report, titled #AcceleratingAuthoritarianDynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline, was released on Thursday by the #SteadyState, a network of more than 340 former officers of the #CIA, #NSA, state department, and other national-security agencies." [1]
"We wrote it because the same tools we once used to assess foreign risks now show unmistakable warning signs at home." [1]
#BackslidingDemocracy #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/trump-authoritarianism-warning
3 ... but it's also misleading in that the competition involved isn't genuine. But I can't think of an alternative, and " #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism" seems to be well on its way to becoming the established idiom for referring to such systems, including the one that seems to be emerging in the #US
2 ... but manage elections and the surrounding institutions in such a way that it's virtually impossible for the opposition to win and dislodge the government. " #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism" makes sense in that there is ostensibly an element of competition in the allocation of #power ...
1 I feel ambivalent about the phrase "Competitive Authoritarianism," which seems to have emerged as the consensus way of referring to #authoritarianisms that maintain the apparatus of #electoral #democracy ... 🧵 #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism
“The consolidation of Trump’s power has happened very quickly, more rapidly than we have seen in other examples of #competitiveauthoritarian systems.” #Trump #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
The authoritarian checklist
Apparently what we have in #Bulgaria is called #competitiveAuthoritarianism in the US https://civicnebraska.org/20250423-competitive-authoritarianism-you/
#competitiveauthoritarianstates
“ #Trump 2.0 has worked hard at perfecting the art of what the experts call “ #competitiveauthoritarianism,” in which an ostensibly #democratic #opposition is allowed to exist, as long as it’s guaranteed they can never succeed.” www.inquirer.com/opinion/texa...
Trump actually is ‘canceling’ ...
The detaining of Senator Alex Padilla should be understood for what it is, a sign of MAGA's widening embrace of some of the hallmark tactics of competitive authoritarian regimes.
“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy,” Levitsky, Way, Ziblatt argued in the NYT recently.
“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the #government because they could credibly face government #retribution, they no longer live in a full #democracy.
By that measure, America has crossed the line into #competitiveauthoritarianism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | How Will We Know Whe...
Examination of "competitive
authoritarianism" and how the USA is moving in that direction:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #Politics #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism #Authoritarianism
With the chamber in paralysis, a new battle over #funding the govt looms next month, while boosters of #Ukraine’s war effort fear #DC lawmakers may be unable to authorize crucial new installments of #military #aid.
But the concerns harbored by onlookers abroad go far deeper.
#UnitedStates #NationalSecurity #democracy #WorldPower #SuperPower #AmericanDecline #geopolitics #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #Minoritarianism #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism #Authoritarianism
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