Recent simulations conducted by left-leaning anti-Trump experts envision the U.S. facing an unprecedented erosion of democratic norms under a second Trump administration, according to Transition Integrity Project co-founder Rosa Brooks, who suggested the recent “war games” demonstrated the need for “creative” resistance and “harm reduction” tactics to counter what she describes as “autocratic” maneuvers President Donald Trump would employ.
In a Tuesday piece that appeared in The New Republic, Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor and former official in the Obama administration who leads the Democracy Futures Project, a series of role-play simulation exercises, claims the results of the recent simulations offered “sobering” lessons.
“This is very bad, and we are not nearly ready for what’s coming our way,” she writes.
The alarmist “war game”…
