The Rise of the Autocratic Order in the United States

I think the immense good fortune of the united states was that trump for all his very real abilities as a demagogue had absolutely no idea how to go about consolidating autocratic power. I am not sure that the people who will follow him and I will not name names will be equally incompetent at concentrating power. The power is there if they get hold of the department of justice of the fbi of the CIA and equivalent agencies of the of the armed forces possibly by putting in their people in higher commands. What will happen well we know what will happen because this has happened in many many countries in history and I think it's now pretty obvious it could happen in the u.s.