Proof of Burden: One thing I am getting out of the conversations about authoritarianism is that Americans are so thoroughly Liberal they cannot imagine how a government based on the raw exercise of power would work in practice

One thing I am getting out of the conversations about authoritarianism is that Americans are so thoroughly Liberal they cannot imagine how a government based on the raw exercise of power would work in practice

I would add that this somehow includes the architect of making that power much more easy to wield, John Roberts

I think only Barrett might understand that Trump blames "his" justices above all for allowing him to lose. Mice acting to pave the way for a hungry cat!

not my metaphor, credit to @dov.bsky.social .

I was in Tallinn last summer, and our host took us here. I'm thinking a lot about this today. mnemosyne.ee/en/memorial-...

Memorial to the Victims of Communism | Eesti Mälu Instituut / Estonian Institute of Historical Memorymnemosyne.ee

None of these guys seem to remember the Syrian Civil War started with the military refusing to fire on protestors and hasn’t changed much since.

One thing my history teacher hammered was that the Roman Republic was a state constantly at war with itself. Reading about all the normalized mob violence led by *fucking senators and magistrates* was nightmarish

The Gracchi brothers being the obvious instance of how a state handles extremely nebulously defined rules that are then broken, and Octavian taking advantage of the fraying and formalizing the rule by strength

fiercely Liberal and deeply ignorant of history and other countries 🫡 🇺🇸

The long standing conservative project to keep students from learning broadly of things like 19th & 20th labor suppression violence and post Civil War suppression of African Americans was always in service to their project.

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