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1 US/CANADA
Trump return threatens US democracy, warns expert
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”.
As in all fascist movements, contemporary forces have found a popular leader unconstrained by the rules of democracy, this time in the figure of Donald Trump.
“We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible,” 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.”
His message was blunt: “By 2025, American democracy could collapse … By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a rightwing dictatorship.”
The author cited eventualities centred on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.
2 UNITED STATES
Jury finds Theranos founder guilty on four fraud counts
Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, was found guilty on four of 11 charges of fraud, concluding a high-profile
