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Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social |
I feel the Skepticism you hear from some when they seem utterly baffled that people would actually believe a second Trump term would bring authoritarian and anti democratic backsliding is rooted in, among other things, 1) not realizing that if something like that occurs, it’s not gonna have…
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Hunter
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I also think the vast majority of those expressing skepticism in fact favor such backsliding. It's not that they don't think the things being warned of won't happen, they're more confused that other people would consider those acts politically abnormal.
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Dara Lind
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I think it’s also the assumption that Trump 2 would be the same as Trump 1, when we have a lot of evidence that it wouldn’t be.
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@surfingthepast.bsky.social
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I’ve said this so many times. What MAGAs are doing is exactly what African Americans experienced for more than two centuries. It’s just the first time white people
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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…the dramatic sweep or bang of a March on Rome, it’s gonna feel a lot more “normal” than that and therefore easier to dismiss by many elite pundits 2) ask an older Black voter if it’s hard to believe that America may no longer be a democracy at some point in its modern history.
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Accountabilabuddy
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Other than the part where there cannot (constitutionally) be a second Trump term, sure. He's barred from office. If he's allowed back in power, it will be the success of that effort to end the republic. It will be the first of a whole other thing.
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the 1st rule of Wife Club
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People in bubbles not realizing how far into that cesspit the USA has slipped because a think tank pays them 6 figures. USA has been awful awful awful for a huge part of the populace not insulated like they are.
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