‘This Is a Country that Is in the Midst of an Authoritarian Takeover’
On MS NOW’s “All In” Thursday, former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams said President Donald Trump is leading an “authoritarian takeover.”
Abrams said: “I think it’s important that we understand that this isn’t about 2020. This is a pretext. The 2020 election has been investigated by Democrats, Republicans and, you know, every department you can imagine. They know the election was free and fair, but what they think they can do is use that as a pretext to seize records that the federal government is not entitled, and they will use these records to challenge voters, to intimidate and to pre-empt, disqualify them because Georgia has one of the most important Senate races in 2026.”
She continued: “This is also a test of what they’ve been trying to do across the country, which is have states abandon their constitutional responsibility for running elections and give that information to a federal government that’s in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. And so even if they use the easy way to say something about 2020, it’s all about 26 and 28 and their attempt to destroy democracy.”
She added: “This is a country that’s in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. There are ten steps to authoritarianism, and we’ve reached all ten steps. But step ten is destroying democracy for everyone. And you do that by changing the rules, by redistricting. You do that by intimidating voters, disqualifying voters. You do that by taking over the way elections work.”
Abrams concluded: “The more we watch this regime of Republican authority attempt to suppress the right to vote, the more people will fight to use it. »
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