signalmankenneth
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The midterms are not only about the economy/inflation, abortion and crime issues , but the future of democracy in this country too?!! Without democracy you have no country to speak of?!!
Donald Trump's effort to stay in power despite losing the 2020 presidential election has resulted in congressional, federal, and local investigations. But far-right efforts to end democracy still lack two critical components, according to an authoritarianism expert.
Andrea Pitzer is the author of the 2017 book, One Long Night A Global History of Concentration Camps, and explained her perspective in a posted to Twitter on Saturday.
"I was in the middle of writing my history of concentration camps when Trump announced his candidacy in 2015," Pitzer wrote. "He did so many disturbing things ahead of the election. People asked me if the red flags meant inevitable disaster, if we were doomed to repeat grim 20th-century history."
"It was all certainly alarming, and I drew several parallels in essays I wrote at the time. But I also noted some key differences in that moment--elements which distinguished 2015 and 2016 from the worst historical moments," she explained. "Organized paramilitary violence in support of Trump or his platform was limited. There were not praetorian-guard law enforcement agencies whose allegiance he had fully cultivated. Many inside his own party were willing to call him out as a threat or mock his legitimacy."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lack...n-camp-expert-says-there-is-time-to-stop-him/
Donald Trump's effort to stay in power despite losing the 2020 presidential election has resulted in congressional, federal, and local investigations. But far-right efforts to end democracy still lack two critical components, according to an authoritarianism expert.
Andrea Pitzer is the author of the 2017 book, One Long Night A Global History of Concentration Camps, and explained her perspective in a posted to Twitter on Saturday.
"I was in the middle of writing my history of concentration camps when Trump announced his candidacy in 2015," Pitzer wrote. "He did so many disturbing things ahead of the election. People asked me if the red flags meant inevitable disaster, if we were doomed to repeat grim 20th-century history."
"It was all certainly alarming, and I drew several parallels in essays I wrote at the time. But I also noted some key differences in that moment--elements which distinguished 2015 and 2016 from the worst historical moments," she explained. "Organized paramilitary violence in support of Trump or his platform was limited. There were not praetorian-guard law enforcement agencies whose allegiance he had fully cultivated. Many inside his own party were willing to call him out as a threat or mock his legitimacy."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lack...n-camp-expert-says-there-is-time-to-stop-him/
