Comment by martythemaniak

In November of 2024, I thought Americans voted to turn their country into Russia, and I still think that's largely right (the oligarchy, the arbitrarily repressive legal system, the endless media sycophancy, the masked paramilitary thugs, etc), but it's also not the complete story. Authoritarian governments like Russia also tend to invest in state capacity and science, so MAHA and DOGE's work is kind of an outlier and a unique American innovation in the space of creating authoritarian hellscapes. Let's see how it works out for them.