US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns

[KJ]

US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns

Canadian political scientist warns in op ed of Trumpist threat to American democracy and possible effect on northern neighbor

www.theguardian.com

Homer-Dixon’s message was blunt: “By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a rightwing dictatorship.”

The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.

Trump, he warned, “will have only two objectives, vindication and vengeance” of the lie that his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden was the result of electoral fraud.

 

[Mindset]

I doubt it. Latinos will be the majority in the USA soon so they will take over.

 

[KJ]

I doubt it. Latinos will be the majority in the USA soon so they will take over.

Doesn't really mean anything, besides, plenty of Latinos, like Cubans, are right-winged.

 

[Mindset]

Doesn't really mean anything, besides, plenty of Latinos, like Cubans, are right-winged.

On the east coast yes because of all the Cubans and shit but most of the Latino influx is from Mexico and they typically aren’t right wing due to the border dispute.

There are some first generation right wing Mexicans, the rural ones also seem more right wing

 

[KJ]

On the east coast yes because of all the Cubans and shit but most of the Latino influx is from Mexico and they typically aren’t right wing due to the border dispute.

There are some first generation right wing Mexicans, the rural ones also seem more right wing

Why would Latinos form an insurgency? The most likely group to do so would be the current far-right groups and some naive right wingers.

 

[Mindset]

Why would Latinos form an insurgency? The most likely group to do so would be the current far-right groups and some naive right wingers.

 

[KJ]

They'd probably side with the next most likely revolution group: Communists.