“Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, co-author of "How Democracies Die." “These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w... - ThreadSky

maxboot.bsky.social • 4 days ago

“Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, co-author of "How Democracies Die." “These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/world/europe/trump-courts-defiance-autocrats-playbook.html

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bicoastaldem.bsky.social•4 days ago

And yet Schumer and his 8 colleagues seem to think that the 15 year “fever” will break, MAGA politicians can be collaborated with despite their loud dehumanizing speech, and Trump will be controlled by the courts.

justnews4you.bsky.social•4 days ago

It was all there before us. The backers the plans. Why are we all shocked? The issue is it feels conspiratorial to say and write it out loud until it happens and then it’s too late. Media and news let us down in a large way

c-pow.bsky.social•4 days ago

America's democracy was weaker than all those other examples it seems. It's checks and balances, it's courts, it's civics, it's education, it's fourth estate...everyone busy with the pursuit of happiness and not life and liberty. Hope it's not too late to stick your necks out and take it back.

sosayu.bsky.social•4 days ago

If even a dozen Republicans in Congress had the capacity to stand up to Trump, this would be a very different ballgame,” … “Trump and Musk and Stephen Miller could not do this alone. They’re doing it with the full cooperation of the majority party in Congress.”

“We’re in a bad place,” he said.

hsoussoko.bsky.social•4 days ago

“like”

But cannot bring myself to repost anything NYT. They are responsible for this.

thedanadecker.bsky.social•3 days ago

THIS WAS PREDICTABLE

Read this statement by Levitsky from four years ago and ask yourself,

Would we be here if, instead of large scale immigration over 50 years that brought on rapid and substantial demographic change, the numbers coming in had been, say, one quarter that amount?

thedanadecker.bsky.social•3 days ago

Pro immigrant groups have demonstrated that they are historically ignorant.

"All immigration is good" has led us to today's predicament.

Modest immigration is good. Large scale is destabilizing. And that's where we are now.

Congratulations!

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