The 2020 election was a referendum on autocracy, period. And because almost 4 years passed since the January 2017 inauguration, it will take a bit more than an election to move on -- but it's still entirely doable at this stage
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Turns out that if you put an authoritarian in power once, it's pretty difficulty to get rid of them -- and it gets exponentially more difficult the longer they stay. Imagine trying to ask DT to leave the presidency in 2024 after 8 years, had he won the 2020 election
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I think this speaks highly to the robustness of American democracy. Many democracies would not survive a single term with a wannabe autocrat in charge.
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He likely did win 2020
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Someone said in 2016 that "if we let this criminal into the WH, he'll never leave," and I recall they were laughed at. And, yet, here we are....
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The 2000 situation is very different. No one argued there was widespread voter fraud, it merely turned out that the result was very close in one state.
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Ok, good. Now expand your scope of view. Eyes off orange man. Look at the big picture and at least the potential for skullduggery and tricks.
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Putin and Lukashenko are a great examples for this.
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A second term would absolve the new authoritarian norm and would have a devastating impact on democracy
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That's a new law similar to radioactive decay. Only the exponent being a positive number.
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