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Stacey Abrams Says U.S. Has Reached Step Nine of Trump’s Autocracy Framework

Abrams warned that a tenth step of canceling elections is poised to follow the current phase of incentivized private violence

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Stacey Abrams on ABC, 7/7/2025

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