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On Jan. 6 many Republicans blamed Trump for the Capitol riot. Now they endorse his presidential bid (apnews.com)

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In the follow-up to their 2018 bestseller “How Democracies Die,” authors Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky write about three rules that political parties must follow: accept the results of fair elections, reject the use of violence to gain power and break ties to extremists.

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, they write, only one U.S. political party “violated all three.”

Saturday marks the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump, the former president, is far-and-away the leading Republican candidate in 2024. He still refuses to acknowledge his earlier loss to President Joe Biden. Far from rejecting the rioters, he has suggested he would pardon some of those who have been convicted of violent crimes. Rather than distance himself from extremists, he welcomes them at his rallies and calls them patriots.

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[-] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thank you. A Great and disturbing video at the same time. I usually wrote off these types as uneducated dolts. I viewed the whole "Make Things Great Again" as a late chapter of older people looking at their final years with nostalgia of how good things were when they were young and full of energy.

The super dangerous thing is they want a Hitler like Trump, for a punishing authoritarian rule to crush the *climate scientists, gays, liberals, minorities, immigrants, and anyone they don't like to restore the world as they see fit. More importantly to shut them up so they don't need to deal with these things that don't fit into their world.

The hijacking of the #savethechildren hash tags and the flat earthers movement are Trojan horses to get one over into the Q world is eye opening.

And I had forgotten about the mass arrests by the end of 2020 which we all didn't see play out, well except for the Jan 6 insurrectionists which occurred after this was released. There was a foreshadowing of something happening in that August 2019 interview. Sounds like there will be more to come no matter which way the next election goes.

And it seems for many it's because they can't handle the world isn't simple, it's actually complicated more than most can handle. A dictator will fix this and make their big top conspiracies true and the the world is easy to process.

After this I really enjoyed his video on Gamestop and the craziness of the "Apes" with Bed & Bath and Beyond crashing.

This is Financial Advice: https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?si=WGPYHTSj_BN9aJ_a

[-] aew360@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I agree with you 100%

The world is so unbelievably complicated. Dictators and conspiracy theories make it digestible.

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