“The half-century after Watergate was America’s most democratic.” The era ended when Trump targeted both partisan opposition and civil society. “Americans are living under a new regime. The question now is whether we will allow it to take root.” Resistance “has been underwhelming — alarmingly so.”
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Timothy Snyder
Best read as a reasoned call to action, not a question. And we will need vivid terms for where we are going — oligarchy and fascism — as well as what we are seeking — freedom and equality.
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Note what’s missing: business, AS A CLASS.
I’ve always feared America’s lack of an economic Left would lead here. The cultural Left never even tried to stop the oligarchs.
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