United States absorbing protests and using policing tactics it has advocated and promoted for democracy in dictatorial states.

Warning signals have been rejected in the past as the film of fascism a hundred years past is running in real time.

Trump is calling protesters who disagree with him terrorists. That puts him in the company of the world's autocrats | CNN News |

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly branded anti-racism prowesters in the country as "terrorists," and his promise to "surge" his paramilitary-style units from Portland to other Democrat-run cities in coming weeks shows he is willing to employ the repressive tactics used by autocrats to vilify those who challenge them.

 "These tactics include deploying federal agents without identifying insignia in an apparent effort to evade transparency and accountability, snatching people off the street with no apparent reason for apprehension, and using potentially deadly munitions to harm peaceful protesters. These actions are out of control. They are more reflective of tactics of a government led by a dictator, not from the government of our constitutional democratic republic," they wrote, adding they were "chillingly reminiscent of autocratic governments that 'disappear' critics and opponents."

In Egypt, where anti-government protests are essentially banned and forced disappearances are not uncommon, thousands of people were detained at rare demonstrations last year calling for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's resignation. Rights group Amnesty International said more than 100 detained were under the age of 17, dozens of whom faced charges for being members of terrorist organizations.

In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan openly describes anti-government protesters as terrorists, and many have been jailed under anti-terror laws, along with journalists, academics and rights activists in the past two years.

And earlier this month in Hong Kong, a 23-year-old pro-democracy protester became the first person to be prosecuted under China's new national security law, widely seen as a way for Beijing to seize powers from the semi-autonomous city. Tong Yong-kit was charged with inciting secession and terrorist activities under the law, accused of ramming his motorbike into a group of police officers.

.... and than there is Iran and the protests ...

Iran police fire tear gas at opposition rally in Tehran | BBC News - Feb. 2011 |

America not only leads but suffers from low working standards, pollution, low wages, gun violence, racism, inequality ... making America great again? Mental deficiency in Washington DC!

'Sapere aude'