So Step one the powerful are chosen in a free and fair election, but it's likely the last one. Step two, the chief authoritarian then moves quickly to cement power by expanding and exceeding executive authority. 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 Gutted schools, inaccessible public services, fired civil servants who've been replaced by the inept and the deliberately incompetent. (07:46–07:55)
CLAIM
Asserts that authoritarian regimes undermine legislative and judicial branches to consolidate power.
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