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James Gregg's avatar

Tom, I’ve been asking the question how does one become a dictator here as our system has safeguards against it. The only answer I get is but trump said so. I concluded it’s a tactic to scare the rubes. Several sites have blocked me for it

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druzus's avatar

"Much more plausible is an oligarchic people’s republic, nominally democratic, wielding power through the apparatus of the administrative state."

This sounds like status quo for the US since, well, forever, which is why I find it so hard to understand the intense fear my supposedly left-leaning friends emit at the idea of Trump. Trump sucks, yes, but how is he more fascist-light than your run of the mill Clinton, or Bush, or Obama, or Reagan, or Biden?

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