Really, how many presidents throughout history would have faced the summer of love riots and had a giant pile of bodies and prisons filled with people held on trumped up federal charges?
We know that the present president would at the very least have the latter, because he did exactly that. Not to mention Washington DC was under martial law the moment the took office in a massive show of military force (which is how democracies work, you use the army to silence dissent... right?)
As you pointed out, that's not a politically partisan thing either -- both parties have plenty of actual authoritarians, actual fascists who want to combine state and corporate power to control the world. Like the people in government (not just elected officials, the people in bureaucratic positions that tend to keep their jobs between elections) using government pressure to silence dissent on big tech sites. That should be concerning for anyone who doesn't like the taste of boot leather on their tongues.
Thankfully, I think desantis showing his true colors and taking stuff people might agree with and pushing it off the slippery slope is a career limiting move, but many of the authoritarians out there don't get a similar reckoning.
We know that the present president would at the very least have the latter, because he did exactly that. Not to mention Washington DC was under martial law the moment the took office in a massive show of military force (which is how democracies work, you use the army to silence dissent... right?)
As you pointed out, that's not a politically partisan thing either -- both parties have plenty of actual authoritarians, actual fascists who want to combine state and corporate power to control the world. Like the people in government (not just elected officials, the people in bureaucratic positions that tend to keep their jobs between elections) using government pressure to silence dissent on big tech sites. That should be concerning for anyone who doesn't like the taste of boot leather on their tongues.
Thankfully, I think desantis showing his true colors and taking stuff people might agree with and pushing it off the slippery slope is a career limiting move, but many of the authoritarians out there don't get a similar reckoning.
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