RE: President Trump: is he an autocrat in waiting?
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What we’re witnessing today in America is “not so much a political revolution as a cultural collapse”
Spot on. This is the most startling part of the Trump phenomenon for me, as a citizen of the U.S. People elected him, knowing who he was. Knowing what he promised. For some reason, many people in my country want a strongman. They fear change--cultural, demographic--more than they fear losing the legacy of democracy. They fear the 'other side', however they perceive that, more than they fear losing their own liberty.
They have to first get visited in their homes late at night because of an errant social post. Or they have to experience a family member being arrested and held without explanation before they realize what they have given up. They don't grasp what due process means to them, personally. They are willing to see it stripped from others, and never suspect that action also applies to themselves.
Scary times.
People never think that bad shit'll happen to them. It is scary. Too many people with too little to lose.