I feel the Skepticism you hear from some when they seem utterly baffled that people would actually believe a second Trump term would bring authoritarian and anti democratic backsliding is rooted in, among other things, 1) not realizing that if something like that occurs, it’s not gonna have…
…the dramatic sweep or bang of a March on Rome, it’s gonna feel a lot more “normal” than that and therefore easier to dismiss by many elite pundits 2) ask an older Black voter if it’s hard to believe that America may no longer be a democracy at some point in its modern history.
For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term!
This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.
And those same people will go on to claim afterwards that “well you can’t accuse me of being one, everyone was forced to join the party” despite them having turned a blind eye to it the entire time
