See, this is a real problem in the US.
People assume that there's going to be some grand take-over event, a third-world coup d'état if you will.
In reality, modern democracies die slowly. Russia was once a democracy, now it's democracy on paper only. What will Americans do, when their courts are infringing their freedom?
Again, it happens slowly. Bit by bit, in the boring court rooms.
I agree with your general point, but the comparisons to Russia don't work.
Russia was barely a functioning democracy in the 1990s and had no democratic tradition before that, just different flavors of authoritarianism for centuries.
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This is why people don’t fear what is coming, they have no clue about history.
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What Russia are you talking about?
The brief highly instable 1990s after the Soviet collapse that was followed by Putin’s rapid consolidation of power?