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US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns
The Guardian via MSN ^ | Jan. 2, 2022 | Richard Luscombe

Posted on 01/03/2022 12:23:49 AM PST by Rennes Templar

The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor has warned, urging his country to protect itself against the “collapse of American democracy”.

“We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine,” Thomas Homer-Dixon, founding director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail.

“In 2014, the suggestion that Donald Trump would become president would also have struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace.”

Homer-Dixon’s message was blunt: “By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a rightwing dictatorship.”

The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.

Trump, he warned, “will have only two objectives, vindication and vengeance” of the lie that his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden was the result of electoral fraud.

A “scholar of violent conflict” for more than four decades, Homer-Dixon said Canada must take heed of the “unfolding crisis”.

“A terrible storm is coming from the south, and Canada is woefully unprepared. Over the past year we’ve turned our attention inward, distracted by the challenges of Covid-19, reconciliation and the accelerating effects of climate change.

“But now we must focus on the urgent problem of what to do about the likely unraveling of democracy in the United States. We need to start by fully recognizing the magnitude of the danger. If Mr. Trump is re-elected, even under the more optimistic scenarios the economic and political risks to our country will be innumerable.”

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1 posted on 01/03/2022 12:23:49 AM PST by Rennes Templar
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To: Rennes Templar

Who is this? He is so wrong.


2 posted on 01/03/2022 12:28:34 AM PST by MamaB (Heb :13:2)
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To: Rennes Templar

Projection. If not for two flaky RAT Senators we’d already be well into a left wing dictatorship. It is terrifying just how close America came to losing it all.


3 posted on 01/03/2022 12:30:56 AM PST by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had.)
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To: MamaB

Because there is no such thing as right-wing dictatorship.
There is only right wing, relative to other political positions. Fascism is rightwing to communism, for example.

However, when you run the gamut from communism to libertarianism, authoritarianism is only on the left side.


4 posted on 01/03/2022 12:31:52 AM PST by Jonty30 (I love giving directions, because it is like me to tell people where to go and how to get there.)
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To: Rennes Templar

BS!!! We have a dictator NOW


5 posted on 01/03/2022 12:34:38 AM PST by afchief
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To: Rennes Templar

Hatred doesn’t sell. But who knows how this will all play out. I have never seen the left push it this far before. To be a fly on all of their walls.


6 posted on 01/03/2022 12:39:16 AM PST by FreeperCell
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To: MamaB

He is a left wing green prof. The fact that they post such drivel I think is a sign the Covid mass hypnosis is not working, and new fear porn is needed to stop Trumpism.


7 posted on 01/03/2022 12:39:34 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Even on MSN the comments (which alawys skew far left) are laughing about this insanity. This crap appeals to the left base but nowhere else.


8 posted on 01/03/2022 12:57:40 AM PST by Houserino
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To: Rennes Templar

Hyphenated name for a guy college professor?


9 posted on 01/03/2022 12:58:27 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Rennes Templar

By 2030?

Look no further. We are under a left wing tyrannical govt at this moment.


10 posted on 01/03/2022 1:05:37 AM PST by HollyB
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To: Rennes Templar

Perhaps President Trump can get a second border wall built between the US and Canada during his second term. Perhaps a divorce between liberals and sane people could put this division to use by relocating all of the idiots to Canada. Never hurts to have dream does it?


11 posted on 01/03/2022 1:11:58 AM PST by unlearner (Be ready for war.)
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To: Jonty30

That was my thought as well. What would a “right-wing dictatorship” be? You freedom people to death or what? The government minds it’s own business and people eventually die from an unrequited yearning for Jack boots?


12 posted on 01/03/2022 1:15:56 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Rennes Templar

Notice how Left wing-ish tards, especially those within academia, etc., always, and I mean always deflect to rightwing BS and blah, blah, blah, when it is they, the Leftists, whether Communists, Socialists, Progressives, etc., are the one’s that are acting like dictator wannabe’s, etc? OMFG, these idiotic morons need to stfu and die already, deflecting and projecting mofos....


13 posted on 01/03/2022 1:18:46 AM PST by cranked
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To: Rennes Templar

Old Nazi tactics- loudly accuse your opponent of what you are already doing.


14 posted on 01/03/2022 1:32:21 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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What he means is that an anti-globalist government in the USA might inspire a similar movement to succeed in Canada and he’ll be out of a job. And all his globalist buddies will be in the same boat.

The “terrible storm” coming from the south would be a good thing from my point of view. But if it comes to partition, keep in mind, there are parts of Canada that would probably prefer to go with the red states than stay in Canada as it is absorbed into the orbit of the blue-state residue.


15 posted on 01/03/2022 1:37:53 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (a cloud has fallen over the lands of the free )
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To: Rennes Templar

As I recall history, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim IL Sung, .... were not freedom loving conservative leaders..


16 posted on 01/03/2022 1:43:47 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Rennes Templar

“US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns”

pendulum swinging from the current leftwing fascist dictator, professor?


17 posted on 01/03/2022 2:00:19 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Rennes Templar

Libtards always project their evil intentions on conservatives. By projecting, they can rationalize inflicting evil on others before they are targeted.


18 posted on 01/03/2022 2:09:34 AM PST by trailboss800
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To: Rennes Templar

Hope! Change! Audit their taxes.


19 posted on 01/03/2022 2:10:05 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: KC_Conspirator

It’s customary among Hispanics for even men to hyphenate their mother’s maiden surname with their father’s. And he’s not Hispanic. Cultural appropriation!


20 posted on 01/03/2022 2:12:32 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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