Just one more indication Trump through Bannon, Miller and the alt-right cult culture is moving toward the ultimate destruction of our democratic form of government and looking toward authoritarian rule. If the Republican Party doesn’t open their eyes and get off their conservative and TheoFascionalist perservationist high horses it will happen and it could lead to another civil war. True patriotic Americans will not stand for it.
This immoral conservative jihadist is one of the most refined forms of fertilizer, the dung of a dung beetle.
Donald J. Trump’s election has raised a question that few Americans ever imagined asking: Is our democracy in danger? With the possible exception of the Civil War, American democracy has never collapsed; indeed, no democracy as rich or as established as America’s ever has. Yet past stability is no guarantee of democracy’s future survival.
We have spent two decades studying the emergence and breakdown of democracy in Europe and Latin America. Our research points to several warning signs.
The clearest warning sign is the ascent of anti-democratic politicians into mainstream politics.
Drawing on a close study of democracy’s demise in 1930s Europe, the eminent political scientist Juan J. Linz designed a “litmus test” to identify anti-democratic politicians. His indicators include a failure to reject violence unambiguously, a readiness to curtail rivals’ civil liberties, and the denial of the legitimacy of elected governments.
Mr. Trump tests positive. In the campaign, he encouraged violence among supporters; pledged to prosecute Hillary Clinton; threatened legal action against unfriendly media; and suggested that he might not accept the election results.
The Dumbing of America and the internal coup and demise of democracy.
