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There's plenty of historical precedents of democratic countries becoming authocratic. The Weimar republic, for example.
That's right. And the US is well on its way. It is unfortunately almost an exact copy of historical events.
Better make sure the capitol in DC has fire supression.
It's wild to me that liberals and leftists were both aware of the path that Weimar took towards facism and the liberals decided to use that knowledge to pressure the leftists to hold their nose to vote w them anyways (just as it happened in the Weimar) and the leftist refused (also just like what happened in the Weimar) and now we're in this situation w trump.
It makes me believe that; at some future state; the liberals will likewise believe that they can force the leftist to kowtow to their platform to the same disastrous results and it makes me wonder if the left wing of politics will permanently do this dance of the liberals perpetually trying to force the leftists into unwillingly accept their platform despite it not happening no matter how much they push for it and I also wonder if the liberals will ever learn this lesson as well of the lessons from 2016 and 2024 that they will never be able to pressure the leftists into accepting thier platform.
The fact that the Democrats continue to insist that they lost this election because they went too woke makes me believe that this will happen at least one more time; assuming that there will be another time.
First time as tragedy, second time as farce
the dnc leadership continues to insist that they did nothing wrong and that they lost this last election because they went too woke; there will be a 3rd time.