As a citizen of one of these backsliders, in addition to voting in every election I'm allowed to, I am committing to taking additional civic action in the next few months to advocate for free and fair elections. I hope everyone in a similar position joins me in that.
We've seen pretty clearly that the unelected administrative state is totally subject to the policies and whims and terminally-online appointees of the executive.
It's just remained largely intact because the scary deep state is just people with careers who know more about statecraft than Joe Rogan listeners.
What if the things I don't like are anti-democratic? Like masked agents without warrants dragging people out of their homes and cars while ignoring federal court orders about using tear gas and other tactics? Or starting a war in the Middle East without consulting Congress and the American people.
Linberg's assumptions are fake. Just look at Germany silencing free speech, and the whole of the EU attempting to control free speech in the digital realm, which the US has.
It’s a well known benchmark in comparative political science with a specific rubric for how each category is analyzed. It’s imperfect but far more rigorous than dismissing indicators of backsliding as just “not liking Trump” (just one of many examples that together form a concerning trend):
F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War Coverage
Trump is a puppet. At least since his second term.
Isn’t it funny in this country, how people will shoot at some figurehead of a subsidiary company or a fat geezer with narcissistic tendencies, or a political pundit.
But a whole global elite pedophile cabal was exposed and no one involved in that is getting shot in the streets.
I question how much control individuals have over their beliefs. Violence and wars are fought over deeply held religious beliefs yet there can be no doubt that those same beliefs are 100% dependent upon (1) where you are born; and (2) the beliefs of your parents.
That makes one wonder how much we control our own beliefs when the daily messaging is dictated by an elite whose money owns/controls the entirety of mass media and elected government office holders.
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It's just remained largely intact because the scary deep state is just people with careers who know more about statecraft than Joe Rogan listeners.
F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War Coverage
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/world/middleeast/fcc-broa...
FCC boss vows to ‘rebalance’ media, urges more pro-America programming
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fcc-boss-vows-rebalance-media-...
Isn’t it funny in this country, how people will shoot at some figurehead of a subsidiary company or a fat geezer with narcissistic tendencies, or a political pundit.
But a whole global elite pedophile cabal was exposed and no one involved in that is getting shot in the streets.
That makes one wonder how much we control our own beliefs when the daily messaging is dictated by an elite whose money owns/controls the entirety of mass media and elected government office holders.