Stephen Nuñez: I am not saying a dictatorship can't be orderly for most people. In fact that is how they survive. I am saying I don't think Trump specifically can generate an orderly and stable environment for most people. But I could be very wrong.

I wrote despairingly today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-rant-o...

The Rant of an Institutionalistdanieldrezner.substack.com It's been a bad week.

"it is easy to see that given an orderly society and a functioning economy, democratic politics may become a low priority" I had a stray thought. Whatever Trump will bring, it seems unlikely it will be an orderly society.

For whom? If most people keep their everyday baseline, they feel it is orderly. Most people remember Brazilian dictatorship as orderly

I am not saying a dictatorship can't be orderly for most people. In fact that is how they survive. I am saying I don't think Trump specifically can generate an orderly and stable environment for most people. But I could be very wrong.

Fair enough.

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