United States, a right-wing dictator on the way by 2030: the warning of a Canadian professor
The United States could find itself under a right-wing dictatorship by 2030. This is the warning issued by a Canadian political science professor, who asked his country to prepare for the “terrible storm” coming from the south.
“By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing severe political instability within it, with widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be ruled by a right-wing dictatorship, ”he said in an article for the Canadian newspaper. Globe and Mail academic Thomas Homer-Dixon, director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia. “We must not dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ridiculous or too horrible to imagine,” added Homer-Dixon, recalling that in 2014 even the possibility of Donald Trump being elected president seemed absurd. “But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace,” said Homer-Dixon, who calls himself a “conflict” scholar.
In the scenario hypothesized by the expert, Donald Trump could return to the presidency in 2024, on the wave of the probable victory of the Republicans in the mid-term elections scheduled for next November. “And once in office, he will have only two goals: to claim and take revenge,” said Homer-Dixon, according to whom Trump will continue to ride the “Big Lie” conspiracy theory popular among Republicans with which he claims to have actually won the 2020 election that led to Joe Biden as president.
According to the scholar, who sees parallels between the current situation in the United States and that in the Weimar Republic, which saw the rise of Adolf Hitler, Trump’s return could be accompanied by the collapse of democratic institutions, favoring the arrival of a real dictatorship. “Through targeted attacks and layoffs, he will be able to thin the ranks of opponents to his movement within the state: the bureaucrats, officials and technocrats who oversee the impartial functioning of central institutions and respect the rule of law,” he said. . “So everything will be ready for the arrival of a more executive ruler, after Trump, to bring order to the chaos he has created.”
Homer-Dixon says this scenario could put Canada in a very difficult position. “What would happen, for example, if high-profile political refugees fleeing persecution arrived in our country, and the US regime demanded them back. Would we respect the request? “, Asked the teacher, who proposed the establishment of a” permanent, non-partisan “parliamentary commission, which includes representatives of the five parties in parliament, able to advise the government on how to prepare and possibly respond to a possible collapse of democratic institutions in the neighboring country.
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