This decay has already started, and Trump has done substantial damage. He has deepened an already substantial polarisation within society, and turned the US from a high-trust to a low-trust society; he has demonised the government and weakened belief that it represents the collective interests of Americans; he has coarsened political rhetoric and given permission for overt expressions of bigotry and misogyny; and he has convinced a majority of Republicans that his predecessor was an illegitimate president who stole the 2020 election.
The breadth of the Republican victory, extending from the presidency to the Senate and probably to the House of Representatives as well, will be interpreted as a strong political mandate confirming these ideas and allowing Trump to act as he pleases. We can only hope that some of the remaining institutional guardrails will remain in place as he takes office. But it may be that things will have to get a lot worse before they get better.
https://www.ft.com/content/f4dbc0df-ab0d-431e-9886-44acd4236922
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Wow who'd have thought making a bullshit book on why democracy is gonna last forever and you're right about everything could be
WRONG!
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Did you read the thing this whole thread is about? He supports free markets in it.
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No, of course I didn't. I've read two of his books, talked to him in person, and concluded that he's full of shit. You can see that in the OP, which helped me connect the dots.
Obviously, to some degree, I'm fricking around because I love seeing these r-slurs go all up in arms. But the man's a warmonger. He's an enemy of liberty. He believes in the efficacy of central planning--to the point where one government can invade a country and magically create a modern, Western-style democracy. It's delusional. Yet somehow, this guy is a """genuine""" proponent of free markets and neoliberalism and not at all related to socialism. I don't know why the cute twink !commenters (
Hello!) think he's this free market reform, "neoliberal" lover of capitalism. He isn't even though he says he is because you need to read what he says and listen to what he actually believes. You'll then see the contradictions.
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I didn't read the rest of your comment after this.
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I still love you tho.
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So you're a fan of him.
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