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    1. Shadi Hamid‏Verified account @shadihamid 30 Oct 2020

      Everyone should really stop with the Reichstag fire analogies. They are completely evidence-free and pretty irresponsible. Saying that fascism will take hold if your opponent in a democratic election wins is also... not democratic

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    2. Shadi Hamid‏Verified account @shadihamid 30 Oct 2020

      As an empirical matter, an old, consolidated democracy has never turned into an autocracy, excepting cases of foreign war or occupation. There's a reason for that. It, quite literally, doesn't happen

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Oct 2020
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      What are these "old, consolidated" democracies you are talking about? I'm tying to think of some examples and they aren't leaping quickly to mind.

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        2. P.S. Real Talk  🇪🇺‏ @PSRealTalk 30 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @shadihamid

          Yeah I feel like these qualifiers are so vague as to make this meaningless

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        1. Ben Bellows‏ @benbellows 30 Oct 2020
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          Venice?

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        2. Shadi Hamid‏Verified account @shadihamid 30 Oct 2020
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          You honestly can't think of any old, consolidated democracies?

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        2. mkazin‏ @mkazin 30 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @shadihamid

          Iceland!

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Oct 2020
          Replying to @mkazin @shadihamid

          Maybe! I don't really know the history. I have vague images of a strangely egalitarian feudalism.

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        1. keyboard keelan‏ @keyboardkeelan 30 Oct 2020
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          all the old, consolidated democracies go to another school. you wouldnt know them

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        1. Hamid Bendaas‏ @HBendaas 30 Oct 2020
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          Every established democracy I can think of has become an autocracy at some point. France was occupied but went whole hog for Vichy years. The Confederacy was autocratic. I can’t name a single democracy that Shadi’s claim would apply to.

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        1. Paul Cohen‏ @Paul_E_Cohen 30 Oct 2020
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          i think he means switzerland

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