Salon: Autocratic for the people: As Donald Trump’s populist wave recedes, an authoritarian regime in the making is revealed

It feels like we’ve inadvertently jumped into an alternate timeline. It’s as if Biff Tannen traveled back in time with Marty McFly’s Sports Almanac and, yada-yada-yada, we’re suddenly faced with a crisis in which Biff is running everything rather than merely washing and waxing Marty’s truck. Only this wrinkle in time is far worse than anything Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis ever conceived in any “Back to the Future” film. President-elect Donald Trump is an anomaly that should never have occurred — a disruption of time and history with which the world is unprepared to cope....
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/20/autocratic-for-the-people-as-donald-trumps-populist-wave-recedes-an-authoritarian-regime-in-the-making-is-revealed/