There has been a lot of accurate discussion about how Trump is not actually building a consolidated autocratic regime, and I think that's true, but in the short-to-medium term I don't think it matters because American civil society is preemptively surrendering.
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Don Moynihan
Not only did Paul Weiss bend the knee, they offered to lend their expertise to Trump's efforts to also get universities to fall in line. www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
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My kingdom for the civil society of fucking Pakistan.
impossible to imagine the Cold War generation reacting the same way, just a total moral collapse in about 30 years. the life went out of the thing.
and..why? no obvious cause I can name
I think it's the leadership castes of civil society that sell people under them to the regime.
It's really a failure of leadership, both as an abdication and a betrayal.
even if, somehow, we manage to save them, they're not worth saving
Still going to fuck a lot of shit up and hurt a lot of people, though.
For the last decade, the elites have been increasingly contemptuous of the people. And, now, they just sold them off.
all three are stupid reasons to comply but i wanna know why
Its downstream of Schumer and other dems capitulating. If the nominal opposition gives in, why keep trying?