Steven Levitsky, a political science professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told The Guardian, "Trump is throwing authoritarian punches at a much greater rate than any of these other cases in their first year in power. But we don't yet know how many of those punches will land or how society will respond….. Trump's ramping up of the effort to politicize the military can still go in multiple directions. It could be really ugly and bad, because the only way that you can get from where we are to real authoritarianism like Nicaragua or Venezuela or Russia is if Trump has the military and security forces on his side — and he's taken steps in that direction."
Words of Warning that will go unheeded until it is too late.
