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Originally Posted by peter12
Historical context is totally different. People love the spectre of nAzI GeRManY because it sounds edgy and serious. Totalitarianism is a big deal and has only popped up in certain places at certain times. Institutions have to be weak and the movement has to be strong.
I could see America sliding into some kind of tin-pot authoritarianism that is short-lived. Something like Italy in the 1930s. Trump reminded me of Mussolini far more than Hitler. The reason being it was mostly show and fell apart rather quickly.
I studied with one of the foremost Canadian experts on tyranny, if that provides context.
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I guess you meant this to be less frightening but in truth Mussolini ran Italy for 20 years, was only brought down because he followed the guy that he inspired and partially created into a world holocaust that took 20 million or more to stop, Benito might have been a lesser evil but he was still evil and he inspired a worse evil that damn near burned it all down.
How long would democracy last in Canada or the rest of the world if we had El Presidente Trump and his kids in charge next door for 30 or 40 years, South and Central America have trouble retaining democracy at the best of times, they would fall back in to dictatorship in a heartbeat, we'd go next, we might last a decade or so but in the end some populist would harness the same fears.
If he hadnt inspired Hitler and followed him Benito would have been no more likely to fall than Franco and Salazar and Italy would have been ruled by the buffoon for 40 years