Elected leaders on four continents ended their democracies from the inside. Now it is happening here, under Donald Trump—a flood of small moves, each one survivable, together an autocoup.
au·to·coup — a coup run by the person already in charge: he uses the government itself to make sure he can never be voted out.
Fujimori in Peru. Orbán in Hungary. Erdoğan in Turkey. Putin in Russia. Elected leaders who used the state to make themselves impossible to remove.
It is happening here
Donald Trump is running the same play—and moving faster than any of them.
au·to·coupnoun — a coup from the inside. The person already in power uses the government itself to make sure he can never be voted out. No one move looks like the coup; added up, they are one.
"If we terminate the filibuster as we should do and immediately vote for the SAVE America Act, then we will not lose an election for a hundred years."
Donald Trump · America 250 rally, Mount Rushmore · July 3, 2026 · watch the clip ↗
He is telling you the plan. A democracy you can never vote out of office has a name—an autocoup—and it is assembled in public, one survivable move at a time. This site logs every one.