Our mission is to identify and publicize authoritarian behaviors, policies, and attitudes
by Jack Holmes, Esquire, November 2018 Trump passed over multiple Senate-confirmed officials in the actual line of succession to pick Whitaker, who’d become Sessions’s chief of staff close to a year earlier after repeatedly going...
by Sonam Seth/John Haltiwanger, Business Insider, November 2018 The White House considered extraditing one of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top enemies to get Ankara to back off the investigation into the murder of the...
by Thomas Pepinsky, TomPepinsky.com, November 2018 Two years ago, just a couple weeks before the 2016 presidential election, I asked what does it look like when citizens don’t trust elections? Perhaps more than anything that he...
How is this legal? by Greg Walters, Vice, November 2018 In 2017, Matthew Whitaker went on television to explain how President Trump could appoint an acting attorney general who could effectively shut down the Russia...
Dishonesty and the use of chronic lying is classic authoritarian behavior.
Consolidating power by silencing opponents is classic authoritarian behavior.
Fearmongering and disproportionate shows of force is classic authoritarian behavior.
The embracing of mass surveillance systems is classic authoritarian behavior.
Assuming strict control over language and instituting hyper conservative policy is classic authoritarian behavior.
Intimidating opponents is classic authoritarian behavior.
