The Unbearable Normality of Creeping Authoritarianism

The Unbearable Normality of Creeping Authoritarianism

America is in crisis. Our constitutional order is failing in front of us. Rule of law is crumbling as Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and a cadre of extremists raid the executive branch for political power and personal enrichment, while an obsequious Republican Congress watches. But does it feel that way to most people? When we turn the television on at night to watch one of the weekly shows or walk down through our local shopping centers, glancing int…

Illinois Gov. Pritzker warns against authoritarianism

Gov. JB Pritzker joins The Lead

By: Lic. Esteban Gomez, Psychoanalyst UBA MN 25591 MP 25668 In recent decades we have witnessed Copernican changes at the technological, communicative, linking, economic and also related to leaderships. We know that forms of production and social reproduction always fall under the shadow of the culture of the time and we are in difficult and critical times for humanity and therefore its social expressions will be traversed by all that. Forms of …