Overview

• Abrams laid out a ten-step roadmap to autocracy on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, crediting Princeton professor Kim Scheppele for the framework
• She asserted that the nation has arrived at step nine, which she described as incentivizing private violence through U.S. Marine and National Guard deployments and alleged kidnappings of dissenters
• According to Abrams, step ten would involve canceling elections once citizens are sufficiently intimidated, impoverished or complicit
• She urged viewers to resist by protesting, building mutual aid networks and persistently challenging propaganda to defend democratic institutions
• No formal executive actions to cancel elections have emerged so far, but her warning has drawn public attention and analysis of potential threats to U.S. electoral processes