| I read this book years ago and it had a huge impact on my thought. I agree with your statements here, and I've been trying to figure out how to have some of these conversations with my Trump-supporter friends. "He's planning to put migrants in Gitmo." But Gitmo has already existed through red and blue administrations. It's not like it's a brand new concentration camp. "Look at the laundry list of executive orders." But Biden did a bunch of EOs early on too. Both sides have done tariffs. Anwar al-Awlaki was an American citizen killed in a drone strike under Obama. The Patriot Act and the 100 Mile Border Zone undermined the Fourth Amendment years ago. We've permitted corruption and insider trading for congresspeople for years. The fact is, we've had bipartisan "fascism" creeping up on us for decades. I don't even know where to start with root causes, and everything is so damn historically muddy that it's hard to persuade someone who genuinely believes that "Trump & Elon just want less government spending" that they're not using their exceptional powers for good. |