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steve2470

(37,468 posts) Fri Aug 28, 2020, 02:19 PM Aug 2020

Michael McFaul, former Ambassador to Russia: "For those of us who study autocracies..."

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299393438522077190.html (for easy reading)

For those of us who study autocracies, including elections in autocracies, there were a lot of familiar messages, symbols, and methods on display this week at the #RNCConvention. THREAD

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Michael McFaul, former Ambassador to Russia: "For those of us who study autocracies..." (Original Post) steve2470 Aug 2020 OP

Dynamite! Alacritous Crier Aug 2020 #1

Plenty of signs there in 2016 also. Budi Aug 2020 #2

"Kings and tsars moondust Aug 2020 #3

We may well regret not removing him after the impeachment BSdetect Aug 2020 #4

Alacritous Crier

(4,280 posts)

1. Dynamite!

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Aug 28, 2020, 02:45 PM

Aug 2020

Budi

(15,325 posts)

2. Plenty of signs there in 2016 also.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Aug 28, 2020, 04:20 PM

Aug 2020

Pathetic that it took Trump 'exploding' every norm of our gov't to wake people up.

moondust

(20,959 posts)

3. "Kings and tsars

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Aug 28, 2020, 04:59 PM

Aug 2020

always blamed bad provincial leaders for national ills. Putin blames the governors all the time... just like Trump."

I've always assumed this was a big reason for Dump's inaction in the early days of COVID when it was critically important: so he could blame the governors...just like Putin.

Last night I *think* Mary Trump suggested something darker--that it wasn't negligence--but I'll leave that to the "Nuremberg" investigation.

BSdetect

(9,048 posts)

4. We may well regret not removing him after the impeachment

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Aug 28, 2020, 06:57 PM

Aug 2020

Clearly he was guilty and is a traitor

Extraordinary measures were required.

He's going to commit an incredible act to try to keep power.

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