As a history buff, I’m shocked at the rapidity of the decline of American liberal democracy.

@sstronaut In some ways we’re worse because the conditions in Germany were so much worse.

@sstronaut It actually does make sense if you consider how uninformed the average person is. Things were good under Trump. That's because he inherited Obama's economy, but the average person doesn't know that. Then covid came along and wrecked everything. Trump failed to handle covid, so it's his fault, but the average person doesn't know that. All the average person knows is that now Biden is president and things are bad, that's it.

@badminton By running a very effective campaign against a weaker opponent.

It worked against Clinton and Harris, but not against Biden.

@badminton An unrenlenting barrage of lies and hate restored him to office. Average Americans have become too unlearned and gullible.

@LetsDance Simply put, Trump reached both white and nonwhite working class voters more effectively than Harris, and many of those people came to view the Democrats as condescending and elitist.

Understanding this is understanding exactly why Trump won.

@hunkalove The system held under both. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

@Bumbles I was there. You weren't. We never recovered from Nixon. Reagan made it very clear only the wealthy mattered.

@hunkalove Nixon and Reagan were both terrible presidents, especially Reagan, no question. But neither of them threatened democracy as an institution. And when the corruption was blatant enough, there was pushback from both parties. Republicans turned on Nixon when he was too open with his corruption, whereas Trump has been ten times worse and the Republicans actually like that.
Yes, we've had bad presidents in the past, but Trumpism is something America has never delt with before. I honestly don't know if America will still be a Democracy in a few years.

@tindrummer We can only hope…