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Our world is getting ever more dangerous as autocrats like Lukashenko see that they can commit acts of violence, terrorism and election interference with impunity.

Putin freely poisons his opponents, interfes in our elections and across the world, takes territory like the Crimea.

Netanyahu bombs Palestinian hospitals, schools, residential buildings, international news media offices and municipal utilities killing noncombatant men, women and children.

Trump creates a new Republican Party based on conspiracy theories, promoting hate crimes and attacks against his opponents and those who try to speak truth, calling our elections fraudulent when he doesn't win, inciting the January 6th insurrection until our democracy is in doubt on all sides.

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All of the authoritarian figures in the 21st Century operate on a mob boss model with similar disinformation tools. Not all that different than the white supremacy leaders in the south that created a one party system with impunity with no effective Constitutional protections. Without a democratic citizenry with our own strong constitution to fight this, the world has no response.

Trump and all of his friends and cohorts around the world are out right criminals. Justice requires even stronger measures against their measures.

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