Destroying the village in order to save it

The latest meme. Democracy is dying in America (perhaps true) but it’s the populist’s fault. They are forcing the progressives to be fascist. By casting the Other as monstrous racists it is psychologically possible to justify the reprehensible as necessity.

Analysis: The GOP’s devotion to Trump threatens to destroy American democracy

With its cultish devotion to Donald Trump, the majority of the Republican Party is choosing a wannabe-autocrat over the political system that made the United States the world’s most powerful nation and its dominant democracy.

Trump is answering one question that was often asked in his dark last days in office — would he be as powerful in private life as he was with the trappings of presidential office? If anything the former President wields even more control of his party now than he did over the last five years , a fact made more remarkable by the social media silence enforced by bans from major social media platforms.

And there are very clear signs that Trump’s assault on American democracy is working. In a CNN poll released last week, only 23% of Republican voters believed that Biden legitimately won sufficient votes to win the election last year. This follows a Quinnipiac poll in February that showed that 76% of Republicans believe that there was widespread fraud in the election.

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Perhaps it’s more simple.