Trump's interview this weekend ... acclaim by Trumpists for a Twitter essay justifying the violent attack on the constitutional transition of power ... time to start using the F-word about post-presidential Trumpism theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
In a 2020 book, I experimented with the word "fascoid" to describe Trumpism - meaning similar to fascism, but not quite there. But as Trumpism moves from *threatening* anti-state political violence to *justifying* anti-state political violence, it's time to drop the fancy suffix
And now the question for mainstream politics is: the US is a two-party system, and one of the parties is only conditionally committed to democracy. "Yes" if it wins; "no" if it doesn't.
That's not a formula for political stability. The best case ...
That's not a formula for political stability. The best case ...
... is Italy in the 1970s, where the main opposition party was the Communists who sometimes promised to respect election results - but could never be trusted actually to do it. The worst case is much worse than that.
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