I’m Stacey Abrams. There are 10 Steps to Autocracy and Authoritarianism. In America, we’re seeing all 10. But there’s still time to fight back. Ask me anything.

Hello Redid! This is Steisi Abrams. By profession, I am a tax lawyer, serial entrepreneur, author of the bestseller and a former leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives of Georgia. I will answer questions about any of these works. But now I am focused on exposing authoritarianism and autocracy in America and help people find tools to fight.

Authoritarian regimes rarely seize power at one dramatic moment. Instead, they undermine democracy, taking simultaneous steps that suppress the opposition. This idea comes from the professor Kim Lane Sheppel From Princeton, whose work on authoritarianism helped me – and many others – to understand the meaning of what we see. Here are 10 steps to autocracy and authoritarianism:

1. Win the latest honest elections → Autocrats often win the elections, and then guarantee that they will be the last truly free.
2. Expand the executive power → To bring the presidential power outside the legal boundaries.
3. Capture other branches → Coopting Congress and neutralize the courts.
4. Rushing the civil service → Eliminate competent civil servants and destroy the government so that it does not work.
5. Install loyalists → Fill the key posts of people who are ready to ignore the laws and needs of the people.
6. Attack the media → Discount independent journalists and voices and replace them with propaganda.
7. Communities of the scapegoat → Aim at immigrants, minorities and marginalized groups and attack the Dei.
8. Destroy support systems → To undermine institutions that protect rights and teach communities.
9. Normalize violence → Militarization of law enforcement agencies and stimulate political violence.
10. To end the democracy itself → Manipulate elections and systems to guarantee constant power.

Understanding the authoritarian script, we can better understand the news and react to them. And in order to return our democracy today, we need to perform “10 steps to autocracy and authoritarianism” with 10 steps to freedom and power.

I look forward to your questions. I will be near an hour, starting from 10:30 in the morning to eastern time. You can find out detailed information about the 10 Steps campaign on the site: 10stepscampaign.org

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Update 1: Thank you so much for such informative and important questions. I tried to answer the most common topics, but I am sure that I missed a good question. At the moment I will turn off, but I will try to return today later to answer a few more questions. In the meantime, I hope that you will take any actions by visiting 10stepscampaign.org. Be in the know, stay involved and continue the struggle – together we will be able to defeat autocracy, regain our democracy and build the future we deserve.