The Democratic Party, the mainstream news media and the political class are conducting a political autopsy of the 2024 election and how Donald Trump and the MAGA movement were able to easily triumph when the “conventional wisdom” suggested a historically close election. This political autopsy is even more urgent given that Trump and his MAGAfied Republicans will rule the country as authoritarians with control over all three branches of government and a Supreme Courtthat has decided that Trump is a de facto king who is above the law. Based on the people he is choosing for his Cabinet and for other senior roles in his administration, Trump is following the autocrat’s playbook of surrounding himself with yes-men and -women whose loyalty is to him personally and not the Constitution, the American people, democracy, the rule of law and the common good. Almost all of Trump’s choices are manifestly under-qualified, if not incompetent, for the vast amounts of power and responsibility they will be given to impact the lives, safety and future of the American people and the country.
The Democratic Party’s postmortem analysis of its defeat in the 2024 election is important, but they need to quickly move forward if they and the country’s democracy and civil society are to have any chance of surviving the Trump MAGA autocracy and authoritarian regime.
-Chauncey Devega in Salon.com
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