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Nice sentiment, not based in reality though.

Voters are guided by their own personal circumstances, often punishing leaders when economic conditions worsen and rewarding them when they improve, paying little heed to the politician’s actions.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/01/30/book-review-democracy-for-realists-why-elections-do-not-produce-responsive-government-by-christopher-h-achen-and-larry-m-bartels/

Liberal apathy is how you get to Hitler.

At an executive level, sure.

But the dogged insistence that fascism just happens and nobody does anything about it ignores the armies of protestors, the various pushback at state and local levels, the independent media rallying opposition, and the multiple assassination attempts on fascist figures.

This is in stark contrast to Dem political leadership, who seem to think Donnie is just another guy you make deals with.

they do not understand the Paradox of Tolerance

For the DC elites, they do. They just can't decide whether Trump is really a problem or merely a fundraising vehicle.

For the propes, urgency exists, but not the power to do anything about it

Nah, this road was inevitable for the US - liberal apathy is a nonsense; it suggests US voters had a choice or a say - they don't and never have. The two parties overlap in their beliefs - there has never been true choice. There was the veneer of democracy, but the system has been rigged for decades if not a century or more. There are 2 parties who have dominated in every state and at every level, and play voters off against each other. Anyone interested in politics has no choice but to join the red team or the blue team - if they don't they'll never achieve anything. The 2 parties have pushed beyond first-past-the-post to extremes with gerrymandering to ensure no 3rd party will ever get a look in. The Democrats and Republicans have written all the rules to suite themselves, and it's ended up that the extreme end of one party can dominate the lot and do what it wants.

1/3 of voters vote Democrat, 1/3 Republican and 1/3 don't vote because why bother. The US President has immense power, and their primary checks and balances are entirely partisan and always have been. The Supreme Court has always been partisan with Democrat and Republican political appointees, and Congress is by it's nature partisan and divided in 2 between the 2 parties due to the entire system. The players of the game have set all the rules.

If you want to see what comes next, look at Russia. It never had a strong system post communism, and Yeltsin was drunk and out of touch with reality towards the end of his tenure. Putin was his advisor and managed to manipulate Yeltsin and make himself his heir apparent. Putin has then gone on to dismantle even the semblance of democracy they had, becoming a dictator and now an aggressor invading country after country. And unlike Hitler, his opponents in the west are divided.

Trump is a disaster, but what we should all be really worried about is what comes next. Trump is the USA's Yeltsin; it's the US Putin who comes next we should all be terrified of.

I honestly don't see any way back from the abyss in the USA. Anyone who wants to stop Trump of course has to vote Democrat because that's the system. But whose to say the US Putin won't be a Democrat? Red team or Blue team - it doesn't matter; neither believe in democracy they just believe in the game.

Well done. I had to stop mid read to read that again because I couldn't believe my eyes

Textbook in political perfection?!

Don't you remember the first thing he did in 2017 was ban all foreigners from entering the country, and thank goodness we still had checks-and-balances back then because the REAL people running the country shut down that idea real damn quick.

What I want to know is what happened to the checks & balances?! They do not seem to be in place anymore.

He did a 180 and then moon walked

Israel started as a genocidal state, it continued as a genocidal state, and it still is a genocidal state. Settler Colonialism is genocide.

I think everyone down voting you missed the sarcasm. This post is about not yet Hitler but they don't like your not yet Hitler.

Also, Hitler shoots himself in the head while his wife dies from cyanide poisoning, so not yet Hitler

Nah, even that wouldn't be Hitler. Hitler is a concept that can never be met or exceeded in real life. Hitler is always worse. /s

Surprisingly good.

If you think this ends with trump then good news, you will have no idea whats going to happen in 13 months.

They will, once again, choose to "move past" the event and not create any actual fixes.

That's funny, I was just coming to comment about remembering when Godwin's law was a thing, and about how I wonder, now, if it helped contribute towards protecting the slow, continual growth of fascist ideology. Nazi thinkers not getting called out on their Nazi thoughts by invoking this made up rule.