Overview
- Stanley said viewers should stop discussing the potential end of U.S. democracy because the country has already moved past that point.
- He cited a leader-centered cult of personality, signs of fascism, and a climate of fear as markers of the shift.
- He pointed to lavish praise for the president by leading tech executives and to flattery from European leaders as indicators of elite accommodation.
- He drew comparisons to China and North Korea and said the situation resembles Germany in 1933 rather than 1938.
- He warned that opposition politicians are beginning to face persecution through the justice system, with his remarks aired on ZDF's heute journal and later reported by Focus Online.