Nina Jankowicz Just Called Out the U.S. as an Emerging Autocracy—And She’s Right

This wasn’t Russia. This wasn’t China. This wasn’t Iran.

It was us.

Standing before the European Parliament, Nina Jankowicz—a former U.S. counter-disinformation official—didn’t mince words:

“Before I describe the details of Russia’s recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America.”

Let that sink in.

A respected expert who once led America’s fight against disinformation is now warning Europe that we are behaving like the very regimes we used to oppose.

This is the part the flag-wavers and Constitution cosplayers won’t want to hear: she’s not exaggerating. She’s underplaying it.

We’ve got a president dismantling watchdog agencies, cozying up to dictators, and promoting his own cryptocurrency while sitting in the Oval. A Supreme Court bought by billionaires. And a social media empire amplifying propaganda and rage for profit.

What Nina did wasn’t treason—it was triage.

She told Europe what too many Americans are too afraid to admit: our democracy is hanging by a thread, and the scissors are in our own hands.

This isn’t some ivory tower academic hand-wringing. This is a flare fired into the sky.

When European lawmakers are being told to treat the United States as a threat to democracy, it’s not time to be polite.

It’s time to be loud. To organize. To resist.

Because if we don’t fight for democracy now, we’ll soon be the punchline in someone else’s warning speech.