President Donald Trump’s authoritarian assault on America’s constitutional democracy, as unbearable to the naked eye as watching an eclipse, has proceeded at a pace that has shocked academic experts who have spent their careers chronicling the rise of autocratic leaders in foreign nations across the years.

By comparison, the entrenchment of authoritarianism in Russia under Putin, Hungary under Orban, and Turkey under Erdogan, make those autocrats look like the proverbial tortoise to Trump’s hare.

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