“In an America beset with racial grievances, ill-articulated class frictions, immigration anxieties, and the prospect of global terror, it is scary to imagine what a charismatic, shrewd, and truly talented right-wing politician might be able to do.”
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We need to help them articulate those grievances, or the streets will be awash with the rabble who thought their freedoms were being taken away, as witnessed at the insurrection.
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This is my big fear. A competent version of Trump could steal American democracy.
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To be fair, the same could be said about left wing and or plain old mainstream party politics demagoguery. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, large swaths of Latin America the Middle East, and beyond, have all been victims of mainstream American politics as usual.
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