Source: The Hill
by Avraham Shama
“In my 2022 novel, ‘Cyberwars,’ one of the characters suggests that internet technology makes it possible to turn a democracy into a democratic dictatorship. But when I wrote it, I couldn’t have imagined that this fiction could describe the U.S. under President Trump today. While much of the globe is embroiled in the tariff wars that are setting the world on fire, a far more critical development is quietly taking place here at home: the transformation of Americans from citizens to subjects. Following President Vladimir Putin, Trump is on his way to becoming an elected dictator. His behavior echoes the statement by Louis XIV to the Paris Parliament in 1655: ‘The state, it is me.’ And in the next election, Trump will not need a self-coup or to incite his supporters the way he tried in 2020.” (04/22/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5258862-us-transformation-from-citizens-subjects/