The US is now a Latin American country. This is the perfect model of a Latin American extreme rightwing regime. The only thing missing is the death squads. I’m sure they’ll be coming along soon enough now.
Otherwise it’s a complete replication, all the way down to a very White rightwing ruling class who lord it over the browner proles.
Corrupt/stolen elections? Check.
Corrupt judiciary? Check.
Culture of lies? Check.
Culture of extreme militarism? Check.
Culture of violent anti-Communist fanaticism? Check.
Both an armed Left (leftwing guerrillas = antifa) and right (death squads/brownshirts/guarimbas = Proud Boys) engaging in violence against each other? Check.
Bread and circuses in the ruling class controlled media? Check.
Distracting the workers with fake divisive issues like abortion? Check.
Threats of rightwing coups, military or otherwise? Check.
A rightwing that literally believes that the Left has no right to rule? Check.
Frequent street violence and rioting? Check.
Sense of living in an alternate reality of nothing but lies? Check.
State rule by big capitalists? Check.
Increasingly militant, radical, and even armed Left? Check.
Increasingly radical and even militant educational sector, especially at the university level? Check.
Fake leftwing parties that only mask the rightwing authoritarian state = Democrats? Check.
Politicized, very rightwing military? Check.
Increasingly incendiary political discourse on both sides? Check.
Economic war waged against left governments in order to destroy the economy? Check.
Extreme and irrational conspiracy mindset on the part of the Right? Check.
Extreme rightwing that pretends to be populist and pro-worker in order to get elected? Check.
Frequent death threats against politicians? Check.
Belligerent, pro-imperialist foreign policy? Check.
Police/surveillance state? Check.
Absence of legal leftwing newspapers, newsmagazines, TV/radio stations? Check.
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