It did happen here. Fascism.

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Hume

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Not in the way Sinclair Lewis imagined, with Mussolini and Hitler as his paradigms, but in the way established in the 21st century by soft authoritarians, like Orban in Hungary and the Orwellian "Law and Justice" party in Poland: weaponize the central government and the executive branch to intimidate, coerce, and silence the institutions of civil society, while corrupting the courts and civil service into a political arm of the executive.

 
How has this happened? One of the two viable political parties is now a cult of personality, thanks to the ability of its leader to influence some forty million voters reliably, enough to make every Republican incumbent who isn't already batshit crazy and fascist fear a primary challenge. As a result, the Republican-controlled Congress poses no obstacles to the whims of the lawless gangster in the White House. He has been aided and abetted, of course, by the Republican super-legislature known as the Supreme Court.
 
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