The GOP's Move Toward Authoritarianism

• Feed resentment and fear
• Distort facts or lie until people believe the lies. 
• Promise 'retribution' 

• Evoke a time of past glory. 
• Inflate problems & focus on failures.
• Ignore progress and success.

• "You are either with us or against us!" RINOs. 
• Claim life is zero-sum.
• Encourage tribalism. 

• Use rallies as emotional training exercises.
• Brand followers with swag: hats, teeshirts, flags, signs
• Fire up crowd with chants. "Lock her up!" 

• Demonize and scapegoat.
• Portray rivals as treasonous.
• Deflect criticism.
• Blame others. 
• Trump claims 'Sleepy Joe'  is a threat to our democracy. 

• Ignore the common good.
• Call for the termination of the constitution.
• Undermine trust in national institutions. 

• Denounce journalists as liars 
• "Enemy of the People!" 
• "Fake news!"
• Repeat lies until people can't distinguish fact from fiction

• "The system is rigged!"
• "Drain the Swamp"
• "Deep State"
• "Failing New York Times" 

• Invulnerable Strongman: "Only I can fix it!" 
• Persecuted Martyr: "They're coming for me because I'm protecting you."

Uses extensive censorship, surveillance, and suppression of dissent, including arbitrary detention of activists and ethnic minorities, strict control over media and online content, and violations of basic human rights.

Heavily censors media, restricts freedom of assembly and expression, intimidates and sometimes kills political opponents, and prosecutes activists and journalists critical of the government.

Heavily censors media, monitors online activities, and imposes limitations on political dissent, leading to the arrest and imprisonment of activists, journalists, and individuals expressing views contrary to the state's narrative.

Extreme state control, pervasive surveillance, and harsh punishments for dissent, resulting in a lack of basic freedoms, widespread poverty, and a cult of personality centered around the ruling Kim dynasty.

Strict religious laws, limited political freedoms, and systematic discrimination against women, religious minorities, and dissenters, often resulting in arbitrary arrests, harsh punishments, and restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly.