Nadine
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Black lives matters is not a controversial statement.
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it is unfortunate that americans learn about jim crow as the product of prejudice and not as a nearly 75-year-long reversal of democratic fortune in which a very large number of americans lived under violent authoritarian rule
for all of the pessimism about the present many americans basically believe that we exist outside of contingent history and that nothing could possibly get worse than the present. but, uh, that’s not the case.
robert kagan is…not great, but the overall thrust of this essay — that there is a pretty clear path to outright autocracy — is basically right. and i continue to think that trump’s great advantage is the entrenched american belief that “it can’t happen here.”
November 30, 2023 at 3:04 PM
it is unfortunate that americans learn about jim crow as the product of prejudice and not as a nearly 75-year-long reversal of democratic fortune in which a very large number of americans lived under violent authoritarian rule