Sun Sep 24 23:40:46 2023
(*6952cd93*):: these people are completely out of touch with their understanding of authoritarianism. I think it comes from the typical leftist assumption that all authoritarianism is by definition right wing. They have this religious feeling for “democracy” when all they want to do is make it impossible for any political opposition to gain power. What a bunch of liars and frauds. https://www.vox.com/23873476/america-democracy-authoritarianism-tyranny-minority-levitsky-ziblatt +public!
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(*6952cd93*):: They are actually scared this time though. They admit Trump will win 2024 and they wont be able to rig it enough this time around.
And in the US, where the far right is clearly undemocratic, surveys show a real chance that Trump wins the 2024 US election with an outright majority — not just in the Electoral College, but in the popular vote.
At root, Levitsky and Ziblatt appear a little too confident in their argument that the GOP’s extremism dooms the party to minority status.
It’s true that their agenda is out of step with the majority of Americans. But many voters, especially swing voters, don’t always vote on policy or ideology. They make ballot box decisions based on things like gas prices, inflation, and whether the party in power has been there for too long — factors that are often out of the president’s hands. Even if they do not agree with Trump that Mexicans are rapists or that the 2020 election was stolen, they’re willing to vote for him if they’re sufficiently frustrated with either the status quo or the other party’s option.
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make it impossible for any political opposition to take power
Which is almost the definition of authoritarianism
(*6952cd93*):: exactly!
(*6952cd93*):: Also they think they can keep pushing obvious lies about their opposition and people wont bother to look into it
Even if they do not agree with Trump that Mexicans are rapists
You can hate Trump all day long but he never fucking said this shit
(*37855b6e*):: They are more likely to use the word “fascist” despite pushing public private partnerships
(*6952cd93*):: I know! It’s maddening
(*6952cd93*):: It’s also like when I argue with libs about economics. They all still think Regan invented “trickle down economics” when he never said that, not even once, nor any other GOP at the time. It’s a pure lib prog straw man and you see liars and frauds like Robert Reich and Paul Krugman bring it up to this day as if it is a standard right wing economic policy. People are done with this horse shit
(*37855b6e*):: The future internet will have him saying that. Just wait
(*6952cd93*):: Here’s another lie in the article that leftists always say to themselves, so they are unable to see the world correctly
Conservative parties, by their nature, represent those forces in society — including the wealthy and powerful elite — opposed to radical social change.
The vast majority of the wealthy and powerful elite globally are pushing socialist/communist policy and are explicitly anti-conservative, pushing radical social change that nobody is asking for and denigrating any pushback as “reactionary” as if it is a bad thing to fight drag queen pedo story time and pushing genital mutilation for a made up concept of “trans kids,” etc.