#thinkingabout — Public Fediverse posts
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Dr. Snyder details his thoughts on Superpower suicide.
To quote the concluding sentence:
"From where we stand now there are two ways forward: one is the self-induced downfall of the American republic; the other is to reconsider American ideals and to restructure American politics so as to bring the people greater power over a more just future."
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The Hungarian Candidate
Is Orbán's Decline Trump's Fall?
#Thinkingabout by #timothySnyder
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"The fact that Trump and Vance do not believe in real things such as love and law and patriotism makes them strong in one way; it makes them weak in another. They cannot foresee the larger consequences, because they do not understand how the world works or how a country is constructed. And as they break things, their naïveté prevents them from seeing what is happening, and indeed forces them to snarl harder."
"They do not understand that their grift depends upon what I will unashamedly call the honest labor and decent convictions of millions of Americans. Were there not Americans who actually worked and cared and tried to live right, there would be nothing and no one to grift."
"Those who work against the grifters, who reinforce the reality beyond the [grift] bubble, are doing right. They are not only holding back authoritarianism, but giving the republic a chance. They may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the [true] patriots."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-bubble
#Trump #POTUS #Vance #VP #USPol #GOP #Grift #Theft #Gaslighting #Republicans #ThinkingAbout