A star Washington Post columnist fired by Jeff Bezos’s newspaper has warned that the billionaire is enabling America’s descent into authoritarianism under Donald Trump.

She says the state-sanctioned murder of journalists is no longer unthinkable. Trump has repeatedly spoken about using the military to stifle an “enemy within”—including Democrats, leftists, and protestors—saying troops are using their deployment in U.S. cities as “training grounds.”

Karen Attiah, 39, told the Daily Beast that America under Trump is on an “authoritarian” slide, enabled by tech billionaires like her former boss Bezos, who are consolidating power over platforms and newsrooms.

“We’re regressing—back to a wealthy class shaping reality to fit what they want,” she said. “Instead, a handful of people [and] comp

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