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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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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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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You honestly can't think of any old, consolidated democracies?
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Quick, Shadi, name ten countries that have extended full voting rights (in competitive elections) to all adult citizens for more than 75 years uninterrupted. Don't say the US or France!
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India’s getting there. But many would argue we’re also approaching autocracy....
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India definitely had a period of autocracy in the 1970s.
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Indeed. The Emergency was “declared”; now it’s a gentle slide.
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