Last week, after the Trump administration pressured ABC to drop Jimmy Kimmel from its late-night television lineup, a Daily Show guest summed up how Americans are reacting as the country slides into authoritarianism: We’re like deer in the headlights.

We’ve watched masked men surround a PhD student on a Boston street and force her into an unmarked van and prison in response to an article she’d written in a student newspaper. We’ve watched the government use the military to police citizens in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. We’ve watched President Trump grab power from Congress as he enacted tariffs and dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development. He’s threatened his opponents with retribution, accepted a $400 million gift jet from Qatar, and said that the Federal Communica

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