“Americans are no wiser than Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism”
by digby
This segment last night reminded me of how stunned and yet energized we all were in the wake of Trump’s shocking upset in November of 2016. We KNEW what he was, we understood the threat. Seeing it also brought home the sad fact that he really has been normalized to a great degree, largely as a result of the Republicans circling of the wagons and the failure of the Mueller investigation to clearly spell out the scope of his crimes (which we should not have counted on in the first place.)
Anyway, I bought Timothy Snyder’s little book and consulted it frequently in the early days. Maybe I absorbed enough of it or just got tired, I don’t know, but somewhere along the line I stopped seeing this in those terms. We shouldn’t. It’s really this stark as this past week has shown us. He is a criminal demagogue who betrays his country and subverts democracy without a second thought. The fact that he is an imbecile doesn’t change the fact that he is profoundly dangerous to us all.
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