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Topic: Dictatorship

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

America's slide into totalitarianism

Mike Lofgren
Augustus Caesar in a MAGA red hat (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump: More like Hitler or Augustus?

Jim Sleeper
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on November 14, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The "gang mentality" driving MAGA's wins

Chauncey DeVega
Faith leaders pray over President Donald Trump during a 'Evangelicals for Trump' campaign event held at the King Jesus International Ministry on January 03, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The "religious nostalgia" of Trump

Chauncey DeVega
A supporter of former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as they gather near his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's big win: Media's "epic failure"

Chauncey DeVega
Silhouette of Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Santander Arena on November 04, 2024 in Reading, Pennsylvania. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Yes, it's dark — but don't give up hope

Chauncey DeVega
Xi Jinping, Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

So much for "efficient" dictatorships

Mike Lofgren
Argentina, 1985 (Amazon Studios)

"Argentina, 1985": Post-dictator justice

Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo - The Conversation
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Barr William Barr (Getty Images/AP Photo/ Salon)

Barr, Trump & the Injustice Department

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Attorney General William Barr (AP/John Bazemore)

Barr: Turning the US into a dictatorship

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Donald Trump (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Donald Trump, wannabe dictator

Lucian K. Truscott IV
(Getty/Chip Somodevilla/AP/Mikhail Metzel/Salon)

Welcome to the Trump dictatorship

Lucian K. Truscott IV
"Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis" by Jared Diamond (Little, Brown and Company)

How America is wrecking itself

Chauncey DeVega
Young demonstrators join the International Youth Climate Strike event at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019 (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Fighting the dictatorship of ignorance

Henry A. Giroux
President Donald Trump; Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro; Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (AP/Getty/Salon)

Against the dictatorship of ignorance

Henry A. Giroux
(Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

Trump appeals to “fragile masculinity"

BRAD REED - Raw Story
Alex Jones; Jeanine Pirro; Sebastian Gorka (AP/Getty/Salon)

Far-right media wants a police state

Matthew Sheffield
People clash with Spanish Guardia Civil guards outside a polling station. (Getty/Raymond Roig)

What went wrong in Catalonia?

Mireia Triguero Roura
Joseph Stalin; Donald Trump; Leon Trotsky (AP/Matt Rourke/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trotsky explains Trump to you

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump; Vladimir Putin (Getty/Drew Angerer/AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Jefferson Morley - Alternet
(Getty/Montileo/Salon)

Dictator or showman?

Andrew O'Hehir
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-539572p1.html'>Nomad_Soul</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Ben Norton
Torkild Rieber, Francisco Franco (AP/Wikimedia)

The oil man and his dictators

Adam Hochschild - TomDispatch.com
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