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If Trump wins, the nightmare scenario is world shifts from fascism lite to the real thing If Sanders wins, the nightmare scenario is Venezuela lite wave displacing the fascism lite wave It might all turn on the next big economic downturn
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The United States is so hypercapitalist that a '50s Republican would be called a socialist today. Whereas we're close enough to outright fascism that we merely have to blow on it, with a Trump reelection, to be in outright fascist territory.
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The centrists moderate his sillier economic tendencies (he’s humble enough to take a listening approach), his theatrical ideas get quietly sidelined, he gets a few pragmatic things through Congress while stabilizing and healing.