He ignores that the administrations if Clinton, Obama and Biden were periods of relative prosperity, compared to Bush I, Bush II, and Trump I. Not everyone rode the gravy train, obviously, but even those living paycheck to paycheck WERE getting that paycheck. Unemployment sank when the Democrats were running things. Those who were not getting a paycheck declined in number. The masses in France in 1789 and Russia in 1917 were having serious mass hunger issues. We are not. We the people set up food banks, soup kitchens, etc. Not some Republican “Christian” charity, but popular initiative.
It’s easy to say, look what happened to the Roman Empire, or look what happened to Germany in 1933, but it’s never that simple. One thing postwar Germany learned from the collapse of the Weimarer Republik was not to let tiny fringe parties have parliamentary representation if they got under 5% of the vote. The Weimarer Republik gave seats to every nutcase movement that could get a few thousand party goers to vote them in. It’s as if Jill Stein were given a Senate seat because 40,000 Americans nationwide voted for her. The Reichstag never got anything done, and the National Socialists (Nazis, for short) said, “we will!” Forty-two per cent of the German voters decided to give them the chance. Clinton, Obama and Biden got plenty done. It took Republican control of the media, and probably some serious Russian and Chinese internet involvement, to convince half the country that they didn’t really.
If you oversimplify, you get it wrong.
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