US Politics on Sidechat | So has the US always been this easy for an autocrat to take over or is this a recent thing? Like I’m genuinely wondering if our constitution allowed for this from the start

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So has the US always been this easy for an autocrat to take over or is this a recent thing? Like I’m genuinely wondering if our constitution allowed for this from the start

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Anonymous 5w

The GOP has been weakening our institutions for 40 years, it didn’t happen overnight. We slid into it.

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Anonymous 5w

Always been this easy and many have done it before

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Anonymous 5w

The groundwork for this moment has been being laid since Ronald Reagan, I don’t think they had a particularly easy go of it at all

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Anonymous 5w

FDR and Lincoln were 10x more authoritarian than Trump

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Anonymous

#1 5w

Yeah and accelerated by the tea party

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Anonymous

#3 5w

This is new

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Anonymous

#1 5w

What specifically

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Anonymous

#5 5w

The slavery will stop

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Anonymous

#4 5w

Exactly. Authoritarianism can be used in a good way. I agree with it.

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