President Donald Trump says he's firing members of the board of trustees for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and naming himself chairman.
Sometimes it is necessary for the long term good of humanity. Saying ‘we can’t use authoritarianism to beat authoritarians’ is the logic that got the nazis in power in Germany. The nazis should have been crushed early on, but instead liberals just kept appeasing them.
You can’t beat authoritarianism by becoming authoritarian.
Sometimes it is necessary for the long term good of humanity. Saying ‘we can’t use authoritarianism to beat authoritarians’ is the logic that got the nazis in power in Germany. The nazis should have been crushed early on, but instead liberals just kept appeasing them.
In Germany, it was conservatives who kept appeasing them. Hindenburg was no liberal.
Historically authoritarians tend not to return control to democratic processes. That is to say, you become the threat you’re trying to avoid.
crushing fascism is not authoritarian.
Crushing fascism is authoritarian if you need to become authoritarian to do it.
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