One thing we won't know for a few years is whether Trump was a one-off fluke or a harbinger of future figures. The Mule or John the Baptist? His particular brand of celebrity and ability to mobilize marginal non-college voters might not be easily copied.
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Is it fair to assess that 45's inability to ultimately deploy violence as a tool to literally beat back or intimidate people enough to withstand the political process that has (presumably) taken away his policy authority is the dividing line?
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He's not a political movement, he's a media creature
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Further, I wonder if scholars of successful authoritarian movements could point to incidents of violence that sufficiently institutionalized despot power -- murder of opposition leaders in name of "security" etc -- that 45 could not make happen.
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I’m old enough to remember George Wallace. He was a smarter version of Trump, but limited his appeal by tying himself to the south.
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Worth mentioning that he, as a person, is not going away for awhile, regardless of whether a person *like* him could arise again.
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But doesn't this contradict your argument that the Dems should have done a better job of pinning the GOP to him? The whole problem is precisely that he was sui generis - in his appeal, his policies, his personal weaknesses, his celebrity.
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As a Latin Americanist, Trump feels to me a lot like many a caudillo. Mostly showtime, with emphasis on the previous greatness of Honduras or Paraguay, with third rate paramilitaries made up overweight dentists and grocers in place of the SA.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, the Germans had a lot of veterans from a war they had to fight on their own soil. The typical veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan don't have that level of poison in their blood.
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But the police forces of Portland, Kenosha, Minneapolis, NY, LA, Milwaukee, Louisville are not. And there are many more which are not "poor substitutes for the SA" Weimar liberals need to learn something about authoritarianismhttps://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1322716017286508546?s=20 …
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