Authoritarian Drift and the Normalization of Extremism How silence, loyalty, and spectacle move the boundaries of the possible until extremism becomes ordinary

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive overnight. It creeps in through silence, loyalty tests, and rituals that make the unthinkable seem normal. Trump’s tolerance of Nazi sympathizers shows how drift becomes culture.

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