Jason Johnson: ‘Donald Trump Is an Authoritarian’

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JOHNSON: “I’m not surprised by any of this. Look, Donald Trump is an authoritarian. He has gotten the complete buy in from members of Congress. And I have to sort of push back on the idea — yes, some of it’s because Republicans like him. Some of it’s because they were there on January 6th and they fear for their lives. Whether it’s through violence, political coercion, greed or ideology, he’s gotten all the Republicans in Congress and most of the governors and everything else like that to go along with what he wants. He’s got the Supreme Court to go along with what he wants. And his goal is to, like most authoritarians, you look at Hungary, you look at Turkey, is to essentially make opposition to him, political opposition to him to be illegal. So when he says things like I hate Democrats, when he has little or nothing to say about Democratic elected officials being assassinated, when he has little or nothing to say or encourages the arrest of Democratic officials for doing their jobs like Congresswoman McIver, when he encourages the head of Homeland Security to basically say we’re going to move troops into Los Angeles until the mayor steps down and Gavin Newsom steps down, I’m not shocked by this.”