What Donald Trump taught America: Democracy can die slowly, or all at once

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What Donald Trump taught America: Democracy can die slowly, or all at once
The Trump years offered a brutal seminar in how democracy can crumble into tyranny. Did Americans pay attention?
salon.com
3:29 AM · Jun 4, 2021

https://www.salon.com/2021/06/04/what-donald-trump-taught-america-democracy-can-die-slowly-or-all-at-once/


The Age of Trump and its expanding and escalating aftershocks remains a form of cruel tutelage for the American people in how democracies die. The American people now know what a fascist assault on the world's leading democracy looks and feels like in real time. Few people have the "opportunity" to live through such a world-historical event.

The Age of Trump involved many lessons, such as the regime's daily assaults on truth and reality, its wanton cruelty toward nonwhite migrants and refugees, its disregard for human life, its attacks on free speech and other fundamental civil and human rights, its democide through indifference or incompetence in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, its open embrace of white supremacy, its overt corruption and its disregard for the rule of law.

There was also the cult-like behavior and worship of violence, the relentless propaganda, the deification of the Great Leader, the concerted effort to destroy the commons and social safety net, attacks on secular society and the Constitution by right-wing Christian extremists, the legitimation of right-wing terrorism and other political violence, and the continuing surrender to the plutocrats and corporate oligarchs.

This cruel tutelage also involved exposing the American people to a sophisticated vocabulary and set of ideas for understanding the Trump regime's assaults on democracy and civil society — and resisting them.

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1. He taught Republicans that they don't have to live in a Democracy.

And they said, YEAH! That’s for me!
We can live in a Republican dictatorship and that would be the greatest thing ever!

Almost half the country have now given up on democracy and are actively trying to eliminate it.

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Excellent "Must Read", astute synopses, and very well written.