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    Similarly, the global financial crisis of 2008 broke the assumption that economic well-being would continue flowing from the liberal model, with its free movement of money and people and ideas. Authoritarian leaders promised to “get tough” with outsiders and played on worries that the dominant majority would be brushed aside. “It is when economic grievances are linked to broader fears — such as immigration, crime, or national decline — that strongman leaders really come into their own,” Rachman explains. They alone can fix it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    bye troll
    I thought our discussion was over? I guess your insecurity regarding your stark lack of knowledge got the best of you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    If Biden and Garland don't have the courage to indict Trump we will see violence at polling sites.
    If Trump is not indicted- there is no telling what Trump and his Terrorists will do next!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    “We are now in the midst of the most sustained global assault on liberal democratic values since the 1930s,” Gideon Rachman writes in “The Age of the Strongman,” his survey of illiberal political leaders in countries such as Brazil, China, Hungary, Russia, Turkey and, yes, the United States. It is not exactly a novel account — the death-of-democracy bookshelf is quite crowded — and it covers the greatest hits of aspiring autocrats: the cults of personality, the us-vs.-them populism, the disdain for law, the manipulation of racial and xenophobic resentments.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...uyama-rachman/
    You have routinely posted that we shouldn't bother to help democratic Ukraine defend itself against an invasion from fascist Russia

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    Quote Originally Posted by Geeko Sportivo View Post
    If Trump is not indicted- there is no telling what Trump and his Terrorists will do next!
    Trump impeached twice--no consequence. Trump tries a violent coup--no consequence. Yes, he learned his lesson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    You have routinely posted that we shouldn't bother to help democratic Ukraine defend itself against an invasion from fascist Russia
    uh huh

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Trump impeached twice--no consequence. Trump tries a violent coup--no consequence. Yes, he learned his lesson.
    Fox News says it wasn't a violent coup- IT WAS JUST AN AFTER-CHURCH PICNIC AND BAR-B-Q CHICKEN EVENT BY A FEW DEACONS AND CHURCH-FOLK!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Geeko Sportivo View Post
    Fox News says it wasn't a violent coup- IT WAS JUST AN AFTER-CHURCH PICNIC AND BAR-B-Q CHICKEN EVENT BY A FEW DEACONS AND CHURCH-FOLK!
    GOP officially declared it was an act of "free speech."

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    Retaining democracy anywhere will be a huge problem in the next few decades. It is falling apart all across the globe. Almost since its founding, the US has been a model for democracy and peaceful transfer of power, but conservative America has slowly eroded that base...and with the rise of Trump and his morons, we are no longer anywhere near the model the world needs.

    If we get through this shit, it will probably be more because of luck than anything planned and executed. We have people on the same side of the "democracy question" right here in this thread tearing into each other.

    We are a generation who has pissed on the Republic entrusted to us for a short time.

    Anyway, I wish the US the best of luck. It will need it.
    ON HIS WORST DAY, JOE BIDEN IS A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN TRUMP WAS ON HIS BEST DAY!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Apisa View Post
    Retaining democracy anywhere will be a huge problem in the next few decades. It is falling apart all across the globe. Almost since its founding, the US has been a model for democracy and peaceful transfer of power, but conservative America has slowly eroded that base...and with the rise of Trump and his morons, we are no longer anywhere near the model the world needs.

    If we get through this shit, it will probably be more because of luck than anything planned and executed. We have people on the same side of the "democracy question" right here in this thread tearing into each other.

    We are a generation who has pissed on the Republic entrusted to us for a short time.

    Anyway, I wish the US the best of luck. It will need it.

    Democracy will fail if it does not suppress fascism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Geeko Sportivo View Post
    The facts are cold! The Republicans are out-numbered.

    It's been that way for several presidential elections now.

    The Republicans know this because they cannot even win the popular vote anymore.

    So, even though they do everything they can at the STATE LEVEL to suppress democratic votes, they realize they have to cheat to win elections now.

    DEMOCRACY is seen as a conflict of interest. They hate democracy now. Democracy don't work for Republicans anymore!
    they been cheating with the help of democrats Biden is speaking for them right now on behave of law enforcement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    “We are now in the midst of the most sustained global assault on liberal democratic values since the 1930s,” Gideon Rachman writes in “The Age of the Strongman,” his survey of illiberal political leaders in countries such as Brazil, China, Hungary, Russia, Turkey and, yes, the United States. It is not exactly a novel account — the death-of-democracy bookshelf is quite crowded — and it covers the greatest hits of aspiring autocrats: the cults of personality, the us-vs.-them populism, the disdain for law, the manipulation of racial and xenophobic resentments.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...uyama-rachman/
    yes.

    we must eliminate the concept of the Disinformation Governance Board.

    are you with us?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    You have routinely posted that we shouldn't bother to help democratic Ukraine defend itself against an invasion from fascist Russia

    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    uh huh
    Right here -->

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    No one cares about Ukraine.

    Democrats making a huge mistake obsessing on this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Right here.
    Do you have a point?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    “We are now in the midst of the most sustained global assault on liberal democratic values since the 1930s,” Gideon Rachman writes in “The Age of the Strongman,” his survey of illiberal political leaders in countries such as Brazil, China, Hungary, Russia, Turkey and, yes, the United States. It is not exactly a novel account — the death-of-democracy bookshelf is quite crowded — and it covers the greatest hits of aspiring autocrats: the cults of personality, the us-vs.-them populism, the disdain for law, the manipulation of racial and xenophobic resentments.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...uyama-rachman/
    Yes, there is an Authoritarian illiberal leader of the United States right now.

    One that advocated for mandatory vaccinations.

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