Donald Trump is about to inherit a turnkey tyranny. Thanks, Obama.

[Renew Deal]

During the war on terror, Presidents Bush and Obama built the outlines of a potential police state — a turnkey tyranny. Now Donald Trump, who has that dictator's combination of needy egotism, extreme sensitivity to criticism, and utter contempt for democratic norms, is going to be president.

Will President Obama simply hand over this thing to President Trump, ready for use against potential regime enemies? So far, all signs point to yes. So if Trump turns the United States into something like Vladimir Putin's Russia, an authoritarian pseudo-democracy where liberal freedoms are all but abolished, Obama and the Democratic Party will bear a huge share of the blame.

Let's review what has been built over the last years and decades.

There is the dragnet surveillance program at the NSA, built by Bush and expanded by Obama, which might be used to monitor political dissidents and blackmail them with personal indiscretions. (It has been restrained, but not by much.)
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Full explanation: http://theweek.com/articles/665113/donald-trump-about-inherit-turnkey-tyranny-thanks-obama

[TwilightZone]

1. From the same guy who wrote: "President Obama's massive failure on the Dakota Access pipeline"

And "How leftists can leave the Democratic Party without destroying it"

And "2009: The year the Democratic Party died", an article in which he chastised Democrats for not "fully fixing mass unemployment" and the housing crisis between 2009 and 2010 when they had "the full run of government".

He then spends one paragraph in a couple thousand words saying he's not absolving the GOP of blame.

Come on, Democrats. You couldn't fix 30 years of GOP bullshit between 2009 and 2010? What the hell's the matter with you?

Hmm.

[Hekate]

2. Thank you for that reality check