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Pretty interesting to see live how quickly a democracy can turn into an autocracy
All it took was willingly electing an obvious autocratic wannabe dictator, who would have known?
Eh, it also took 3 other branches being complicit and not doing their job.
This is the important part. Trump 1.0 didn’t have carte blanche to get away with everything, the SCOTUS and a more compliant Congress have given 2.0 that authority.
Interesting is not the word I would go for.
It'd be nice if there would be a simple book being written on the things that happen in the years before a democracy flips. Might be helpful as a warning.
You know it will be used as a guide instead, right?
Maybe, yes. But now it feels like the bad guys are better equipped than the good guys and i dont like that.
There are countless.
Complex books for policy makers maybe, but I mean simple (and interesting) enough every average joe knows the content
I mean... just pick up a WW2 history textbook then?
such as The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer