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How does a modern democracy move toward authoritarianism—without tanks in the streets or a suspended constitution?
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This full film brings together all three acts of the series into a single analytical study. Using the same comparative framework applied to twentieth-century authoritarian regimes, it examines the United States under Donald Trump through three stages: emergence, consolidation, and stabilisation.
Act I explores structural crisis and political agency—how institutional distrust, polarisation, and populist leadership created the conditions for democratic erosion.
Act II analyses consolidation through the concept of the dual state: a constitutional system that remains formally intact while executive discretion, loyalist networks, and selective enforcement expand beneath it.
Act III examines how authoritarian systems endure—not only through coercion, but through explicit and implicit consent. Elections, media loyalty, patronage, elite accommodation, fear, and exhaustion combine to normalise exceptional power.
This is not a polemic. It is a teaching film. It applies established themes—rise to power, control of institutions, media influence, legal transformation, and consent—to a contemporary case study.
The central question remains:
How authoritarian had America become—and how far could it go?
How does a modern democracy move toward authoritarianism—without tanks in the streets or a suspended constitution?
internationalschoolhistory.com/is-trumps-usa-fascist.html
This full film brings together all three acts of the series into a single analytical study. Using the same comparative framework applied to twentieth-century authoritarian regimes, it examines the United States under Donald Trump through three stages: emergence, consolidation, and stabilisation.
Act I explores structural crisis and political agency—how institutional distrust, polarisation, and populist leadership created the conditions for democratic erosion.
Act II analyses consolidation through the concept of the dual state: a constitutional system that remains formally intact while executive discretion, loyalist networks, and selective enforcement expand beneath it.
Act III examines how authoritarian systems endure—not only through coercion, but through explicit and implicit consent. Elections, media loyalty, patronage, elite accommodation, fear, and exhaustion combine to normalise exceptional power.
This is not a polemic. It is a teaching film. It applies established themes—rise to power, control of institutions, media influence, legal transformation, and consent—to a contemporary case study.
The central question remains:
How authoritarian had America become—and how far could it go?
