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Perhaps nothing captures Trump’s authoritarian agenda better than ICE’s illegal kidnapping and disappearing of hundreds of people or DOGE’s firings or dismissals of some 250,000 federal workers – all without any due process of law.

Michael Sozan, a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress, recently co-authored a lengthy report accusing Trump of “smashing constitutional and legal guardrails to build an authoritarian presidency.”

“This is just another scare tactic to get us to follow his authoritarian agenda — but it’s not going to work.”

But there remains some division within the party about whether they should spend their time hammering Trump and his accomplices on their authoritarian takeover or concentrate on the perennial "kitchen table issues."

Trump and Musk’s all-out assault on “diversity, equality and inclusion” in government and education are borne of the same regimented, authoritarian monoculture that ultimately weakens a robust multicultural society.