Step 3 they weaken competing powers by making Congress complicit, and the Supreme Court declares itself impotent or worse, an advocate for their actions. Step four They break government so democracy seems worthless. Gutted schools, inaccessible public services, fired civil servants who've been replaced by the inept and the deliberately incompetent. Step five, they install loyalists who betray the will of the people by dismantling institutions they swore to protect. Step six, they attack the media, defund public broadcasting, and create an echo chamber of propaganda and lies. (07:56–08:08)
CLAIM
Asserts that authoritarian regimes intentionally degrade public services to undermine democracy.
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