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Ryan Enos
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Social Scientist, Harvard University
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 19h
In the last 24 hours, we have learned that the regime's secret police claim powers to enter homes without a warrant, thus ignoring the Bill of Rights, and that the regime arrested and deported students for their Constitutionally protected speech.

There is no ambiguity about what is going on here.
ryanenos.bsky.social Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 9d
We are so far past the Rubicon that it isn't worth having a discussion anymore as to whether Trump is acting as an authoritarian. The only question is whether we have the strength and courage to get back to the other side.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 22h
It should be a criminal offense to print negative material about me is...authoritarian.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 22h
paid agitators, no doubt.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d
This is the frontpage in a democracy under attack from it's own government.
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 1d
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d
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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "Something has to be done about Fake Polls! They are truly OUT OF CONTROL. We have Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, the Strongest Border, nobody has ever done a job like I have done, & they have me in the low 40s... The REAL Polls have been GREAT, but they refuse to print them"
Trump: "Something has to be done about Fake Polls! They are truly OUT OF CONTROL. We have the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, we have the Strongest Border in History, nobody has ever done a job like I have done, and they have me in the low 40s. The Democrats destroyed Healthcare, I’m trying to fix it, and they give me FAKE low numbers. Fake Polls on the Economy, on the Border, on just about everything, are ridiculous and dangerous. The REAL Polls have been GREAT, but they refuse to print them. This is no different than a writer who is corrupt, of which there are many. The New York Times, and so many others, print Polls that are knowingly false. They have become deranged, and sick. They suffer from a major case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS). Their 2024 Election coverage was so bad, and so wrong, and yet they never get called out for it — But I am calling them out with the lawsuit that I have filed which is making its way through the Courts. They have to pay a price for FAKE AND FRAUDULENT NEWS and, hopefully, in the not too distant future, they will!"

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d
The "paid agitator" claim you keep hearing is an attempt to deal, both psychologically and politically, with the reality that Trump's immigration policy is deeply unpopular.

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Ryan Enos, David Darmofal

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "Something has to be done about Fake Polls! They are truly OUT OF CONTROL. We have Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, the Strongest Border, nobody has ever done a job like I have done, & they have me in the low 40s... The REAL Polls have been GREAT, but they refuse to print them"
Trump: "Something has to be done about Fake Polls! They are truly OUT OF CONTROL. We have the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, we have the Strongest Border in History, nobody has ever done a job like I have done, and they have me in the low 40s. The Democrats destroyed Healthcare, I’m trying to fix it, and they give me FAKE low numbers. Fake Polls on the Economy, on the Border, on just about everything, are ridiculous and dangerous. The REAL Polls have been GREAT, but they refuse to print them. This is no different than a writer who is corrupt, of which there are many. The New York Times, and so many others, print Polls that are knowingly false. They have become deranged, and sick. They suffer from a major case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS). Their 2024 Election coverage was so bad, and so wrong, and yet they never get called out for it — But I am calling them out with the lawsuit that I have filed which is making its way through the Courts. They have to pay a price for FAKE AND FRAUDULENT NEWS and, hopefully, in the not too distant future, they will!"

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, R. Daniel Kelemen

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d
Put it on every screen in America so that we can see what we have allowed ourselves to become and how desperately we need to fight to come back from this.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d
This is nice work by Elliott. Note too that the only demographic group in which Trump has majority support is white non-college-educated respondents, and there he is just barely holding on. There is no electoral downside to opposing authoritarianism.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d
One thing we can predict, based on the way minds work, is that in a few decades, when Americans look back nostalgically and, in some cases, bitterly, at a past when America led an international order, some people will claim we lost it not because of Trump, but because people got in Trump's way.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 2d
The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.
ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d
There is a lot going on, but don't let this escape notice: people the President of the United States associates with and has helped to escape justice are walking around doing Nazi salutes and partying to "Heil Hitler" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Miami Beach Nightclub Is Condemned for Playing Ye’s Song ‘Heil Hitler’
www.nytimes.com

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 2d
The United States is not an ethnic-nationalist dictatorship.

But random CHILDREN being seized by masked troops solely due to their ethnicity is very difficult to distinguish from what would occur in such a country.

Show us all the blonde children who have been interrogated, seized, terrorized.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2d
The Trumpification of facts: he also claims in the next breath that tariffs have brought in 10 trillion dollars to the US economy in less than a year.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 3d
An extraordinary racist rant that is unbefitting of any public space, let alone the United States government in the 21st century. We can only hope this will one day be something we look back at in embarrassment. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
Trump Marks First Year In Office With Unhinged Racist Rant Targeting ‘Very Low IQ’ Somalis
President Donald Trump spent the first anniversary of his second term on...
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 3d
He is probably being told daily that the American people are behind him on Greenland.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 3d
The problem is that it's not clear that Trump has a grip on reality. Either his own narcissism, the way authoritarianism makes advisors subservient, or both, means that he isn't getting real information. E.g., everyone who opposes him is a "paid protestor", etc.
albertsonb2.bsky.social Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 4d
Presidents don't float policies that are opposed by the mass public 86 - 9. This is not normal.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 3d
Paul's back and he nails it here
There was no particular reason why the United States might not have managed a gradual relative decline while still reaping the benefits of its privileged position over the course of the next decade. The great irony of “America First” is that the international order—every international institution—was designed to ensure that the United States would always be, if not first, at least never last, and almost always on the podium. It was a great gig, and the relic of a time when the United States was genuinely first—the aftermath of the Second World War, when the United States accounted for half of global output and was the last power standing with global reach. Any institutions that will be built from scratch today will either be less extensive in scope or less favorable to the United States, just as a function of global power realities.

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 4d
Presidents don't float policies that are opposed by the mass public 86 - 9. This is not normal.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 5d
It really is an example of the tragedy of authoritarianism. Nobody really believes this is a good idea. The people around Trump aren't idiots; they know the consequences of this stupidity. But the authoritarian becomes all-consuming, and we drive the country off a cliff rather than cross him.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 5d
The United States is the unrivaled leader of the wealthiest and most powerful alliance of countries the world has ever seen. And it is the process of throwing that all away because of the irrational whims of a cranky old man. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Trump Administration Live Updates: European Officials Hold Emergency Meeting on Greenland Tariff Threat
www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 7d
And, just to state the obvious, it is sad and dangerous when the foreign policy of the most powerful country in the world is shaped by who can kiss up the most.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 7d
Trump left the Maduro regime in place in Venezuela. He has simply used military force to extract oil revenue. This has, by some accounts, been responsible for increasing political repression.

Machado knows this, but she is cynically flattering Trump to try get him to entirely overthrow the regime.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
FOX & FRIENDS: In spite of the Nobel Prize Committee saying you couldn't transfer your Nobel Prize to anyone, especially to President Trump, you did. Why did you do that?

MARIA CORINA MACHADO: Because he deserves it. It was a very emotional moment.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
FOX & FRIENDS: In spite of the Nobel Prize Committee saying you couldn't transfer your Nobel Prize to anyone, especially to President Trump, you did. Why did you do that?

MARIA CORINA MACHADO: Because he deserves it. It was a very emotional moment.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8d
“The big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries and ostensibly the President of the United States are not honoring the First Amendment,” Young said during Thursday’s hearing in federal court in Boston to consider sanctions against the government.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/15/m...
Judge vows to protect immigration status of international students who sued Trump administration - The Boston Globe
US District Judge William G. Young said the order will be “crystal clear” that the government may not seek retribution against students and faculty who “had the courage” to file a suit against adminis...
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8d
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/w...

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8d
That this is considered scandalous demonstrates how far Trump has moved our standards of decency. Armed men in tactical gear and masks come into a restaurant? Of course, decent people should demand they leave. Those are people setting standards for their own community.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
"ICE AGENTS VERBALLY ASSAULTED AT MN RESTAURANT"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
"ICE AGENTS VERBALLY ASSAULTED AT MN RESTAURANT"

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8d
These claims are so dangerous. They are the same in effect to the claims in the 1930s that there were secret networks of Jews and Communists working to undermine the German state and that extraordinary steps had to be taken to protect against them.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Miller: "In MN, the insurrectionists are confronting our officers on the street. They're being arrested. This is a natl security priority. Arrests of insurrectionists are made every day, and each provide us an opportunity to learn about the network from a law enforcement & natl security standpoint"