This mirrors the legal framework used in authoritarian transitions — including the 1933 German consolidation of power.
They are legalistic, incremental, and procedural — not tanks overnight.
Historians studying Weimar Germany, Hungary, Turkey, and modern autocracies all point to the same stages:
A 920-page blueprint explicitly calling for the dismantling of democratic safeguards and consolidation of executive power.
This is not speculative.
Project 2025 explicitly calls for:
This mirrors the legal framework used in authoritarian transitions — including the 1933 German consolidation of power.
Authoritarian systems do not abolish courts — they capture them. Judicial independence is eliminated through intimidation, loyalty tests, and selective enforcement.
Authoritarian systems do not abolish courts — they capture them.
Evidence of this pattern:
Every legal challenge was defeated in court. No systemic fraud was ever found. The narrative persists anyway.
A defining feature of fascist movements is claiming fraud without evidence to excuse authoritarian control.
The facts:
Historical parallel warning sign: armed presence at polling places, threats against election workers, violence reframed as patriotism.
Historical parallel warning sign:
Every fascist movement labels the free press as "the enemy." This is not a coincidence — it is a playbook.
Every fascist movement does this — without exception.
Documented pattern:
Steven Levitsky — Harvard
Ruth Ben-Ghiat — NYU
Timothy Snyder — Yale
This is not social-media rhetoric.
Political scientists and historians have publicly stated that the U.S. is experiencing democratic backsliding consistent with early-stage authoritarianism, including:
A slow-moving coup looks like:
By the time it is obvious, it is usually too late.