07-12-2020, 10:22 PM
(07-12-2020, 08:34 PM)User3451 Wrote:(07-11-2020, 11:59 AM)TnT Wrote:Au contraire, I think we'll see authoritarianism from the "left"(07-11-2020, 06:48 AM)David Horn Wrote: This is certainly true. Actions will determine the result. To be honest, Trump is a potential GC. Neither of us appreciate the change he wants to create, but he's all change, that's for sure.If the Trumpists prevail, the 1T "consensus" could indeed be authoritarianism.
Trump is done. The extremists on the other side are taking over
I see the Lincoln Project, and it seems to see Donald Trump as a disgrace for abandoning old decencies that one used to associate with conservatism. I can almost predict that the Left will go too far, that it will usher plenty of weak intellects and moral failures into public life, and that it will hold assumptions that just do not hold true.
The Tea Party demagogues and hucksters had their way and they have shown how unfit they are as leaders.
The American Left seems to have rejected Marxism. Do you see any calls for the nationalization of industry? Do you see images of Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, or Che Guevara?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.