• They will come to power with a campaign based on fear, scaremongering and distorting the truth. But their victory will be achieved through a democratic electoral process, and this will be their argument every time you question the legitimacy of their actions. They will claim a mandate from the voters to change the system.
• They will divide and rule. They will call their supporters Patriots, and others will be labeled as traitors, enemies of the state, or unpatriotic. Don't ever forget that Trump is a felon who was convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 separate counts.
• They will attempt to dominate the news media, and then, through convoluted laws and threats, they will attempt to control all mainstream media and limit press freedom. They will ban critical press from their briefings, calling them “fake news.”
• They will create chaos, maintain a constant sense of conflict and danger. It will be their argument to enact new authoritarian laws, each one further limiting your freedoms and civil liberties. They will disguise them as being for your protection, for the good of the people.
• They will distort the truth, deny facts and blatantly lie. They will try to make you forget what facts are, sedate your need to find the truth. They will feed “post-truths” and “alternative facts”, replace knowledge and logic with emotions and fiction.
• They will incite and then leak fake, superficial “scandals.” They will smear opposition with trivial accusations, blowing them out of proportion and then feeding the flame. This is just smokescreen for the legal steps they will be taking towards totalitarianism — a centralized, dictatorial system of government requiring complete subservience.
• They will propose shocking laws to provoke your outrage. You will focus your efforts on fighting them, so they will seemingly back off, giving you a false sense of victory. In the meantime they will push through less “flashy” legislation, slowly dismantling democracy.
• When invading your liberal sensibilities they will focus on what hurts the most – women and minorities. They will paint foreigners and immigrants as potential threats. They will challenge women’s social status, undermine gender equality and interfere with reproductive rights. But it means they are aware of the threat women and minorities pose to their rule, so make it your strength.
• They will try to take control of the judiciary. They will assault your highest court. They need to remove the checks and balances to be able to push through unconstitutional legislation. By controlling the judiciary they can also threaten anyone that defies them with prosecution, including the press.
• They will try to limit freedom of assembly, calling it a necessity for your security.
• They will distort the language, coin new terms and labels, repeat shocking phrases until you accept them as normal and subconsciously associate them with whom they like. Their slogans will have double meaning, giving strength to their supporters.
• They will take over your national symbols, associate them with their regime, remake them into attributes of their power, e.g. the Gulf of America, Mt. McKinley, etc.
• They will try to rewrite history to suit their needs and use the education system to support their agenda. They will raise a new generation of voters on their ideology, backing it with a distorted interpretation of history and view of the world.
• They will alienate foreign allies and partners, convincing you that you don’t need them. They won’t care for the rest of the world, with their focus on “making your country great again.”
• They will eventually manipulate the electoral system. They might say it’s to correct flaws, to make it more fair, more similar to the rest of the world, or just to make it better. Don’t believe it. They wouldn’t be messing with it at all if it wasn’t to benefit them in some way.

• Rule 1 — Don’t stay indifferent. It WILL concern you eventually. It will concern your family and your friends. Voice your objection IMMEDIATELY. Show them you care. RESIST.
• Rule 2 — They thrive on FEAR & IGNORANCE. Expose their scaremongering, show flaws in their arguments. Raise awareness, EDUCATE people around you. They will try to distort FACTS, rewrite history. DON’T LET THEM.
• Rule 3 — Organize protest movements, mobilize civil society. They’re well organized, so should you be. FLOOD THE STREETS. They WILL back off when they see your numbers. They depend on you – the PEOPLE.
• Rule 4 — Don’t let them DIVIDE you into different classes of citizens: “true Americans,” “patriots” vs. “traitors,” “enemies of the state.” You’re ALL citizens, ONE nation, despite different beliefs and ideology. Make your diversity your STRENGTH. Stay TOGETHER for a common goal – survival of your country, of freedom and democracy.
• Rule 5 — Don’t give up, don’t get tired, and don’t try to wait it out. Don’t hope it will pass. It WON’T. They will manipulate the people, control the media to sway public opinion, fix the electoral system and STAY FOR GOOD.
• Rule 6 — If you don’t get them to back off or to step down, you better make damn SURE that when the next elections come, assuming there’s still any democracy left, NO ONE will vote for the same bastards again!

When the MAGA cult members have heard enough of Trump's lies and finally come out of the cult — out of the dark swamp — and are freed from Trump's brainwashing, it's an eye-opening experience as they realize that Trump does not represent what they were voting for.

MAGA = Make America Gag Again