One way to resolve the interminable authoritarianism/fascism/coup discourse is to realize that Trump is very, very lazy and has been sundowning for years. So: half-assed authoritarianism, doddering fascism, a codger coup. The adjective shapes the noun.
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True, there is a youth wing of to contemporary rightwing authoritarianism (the Proud Boys etc.) But small subset of LARP-ing losers -- they are dangerous if they have a sympathetic president in power as with Trump, but much weaker than their predecessors.
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I think this older thread still holds up.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/781351534294466560 …
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Did work in Hungary. So it's still a danger.
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Gerontocracy? Are we Sparta or the dying Soviet Union?
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Richard Evans' The Coming of the Third Reich makes clear just how much the Nazi movement was also a youth movement. Trumpism is decidedly not that
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He who controls the catheter supply controls the country?
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Pandemic might reduce the oldishness.
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If I'm reading you correctly, I object! Not all older people are ripe for an authoritarian government. On the contrary, look at Biden, at Bernie, Pelosi and others in that party.
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