The collapse of the rule of law in America feels a bit like 1989 but in a bad way. A reference point for decades just gone in weeks - ThreadSky

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jonathanhopkin.bsky.social • 19 hours ago

The collapse of the rule of law in America feels a bit like 1989 but in a bad way. A reference point for decades just gone in weeks

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metaphysicalist.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Feels more like 1984 to me.

cherfan75.bsky.social•just now

jonathanhopkin.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Sure this has been brewing for a long time but still

jonathanhopkin.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I used to occasionally sarcastically qualify the US’s democratic status in class, but now I have to do it for real.

jonathanhopkin.bsky.social•19 hours ago

And millions of Americans are fighting tooth and nail, striking, blockading, marching … right?

drseanhanley.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I would reach back for a different regime change analogy tbh - no rule of law in communist Eastern Europe obviously in 1989, it was far and no real contestation: consensus even among much of no-ideology nomenklatura that old system had had it and they were happy to dismantle…

jonathanhopkin.bsky.social•19 hours ago

American elites seem pretty relaxed about all this!

tomeco81.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I agree. Professor, please check the book: "To Save America" -N.Gingrich. It focuses on elements of the anti-communist movement in East Europe but in a weirdly twisted way. Today's bill, institution demolition, law reformulation, deportations, and more (possibly what is coming) are in this book.

tomeco81.bsky.social•18 hours ago

They treated their own America as the Soviet Union, imagining themselves as fighters who helped nations gain freedom at that time. But their tragedy is that they fell into a trap—losing their liberty and threatening everyone around..

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