Chitchat How to build an autocracy

[winnipegjets]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/

“The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.”

If this were happening in Honduras, we’d know what to call it. It’s happening here instead, and so we are baffled.

A president determined to thwart the law to protect himself and those in his circle has many means to do so.

Civil unrest will not be a problem for the Trump presidency. It will be a resource. Trump will likely want to enflame more of it.

A would-be kleptocrat is better served by spreading cynicism than by deceiving followers.

 

[Leongsam]

Trump is doing a great job. I wish him the very best. It was about time the liberals were defeated once and for all to the point they will no longer be relevant.

The cancer of liberalism has become even more dangerous today than the scourge of communism was in the middle of the last century.

Trump must take the liberals on from every quarter and crush them to pulp even if it means that some bloodshed is necessary.

 

[winnipegjets]

Trump is doing a great job. I wish him the very best. It was about time the liberals were defeated once and for all to the point they will no longer be relevant.

The cancer of liberalism has become even more dangerous today than the scourge of communism was in the middle of the last century.

Trump must take the liberals on from every quarter and crush them to pulp even if it means that some bloodshed is necessary.

If you want to crush liberalism, then you need to kill millions of people. Does Trump have the guts to do that? I doubt so. Your optimism in him is misplaced.

 

[Leongsam]

If you want to crush liberalism, then you need to kill millions of people. Does Trump have the guts to do that? I doubt so. Your optimism in him is misplaced.

He does not need to crush them physically. All he needs to do is to destroy their evil souls so they lose their purpose in life and have to rely on anti depressants to get through their sorry days.