The rise of authoritarianism in the US is a reality

Meanwhile, academics have had resources cut because they dealt with “inappropriate” topics.

Suddenly a malaise settled.

A new dictionary has been published, seeing terms that would no longer be appropriate in a free society. In one year, in the ultra -conservative states, 10,000 works were censorship of public libraries and schools.

In stands that flirt with scenes that we thought they were unable to be repeated after the fall of Nazism, the suggestion is that even Americans could also be expelled from the country.

This week, an image shocked me. US internal security guard, Kristi Noem, made a point of recording a message to immigrants in a terrifying scenario. Behind her, there was no American flag. But a cell where men were, all naked from the top of the body, tied, with a shaved and humiliated head.

The order of the government is to establish fear. And did it.