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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I'm kind of torn here because if we're being fair, the Trump years were absolutely a massive test to those democratic institutions and the country did, in fact, survive despite him and his cronies doing everything possible to undermine them. So they maybe do deserve a little credit for resilience.
But I'm also a pessimist and am tempted to say "yeah but the cracks that all caused aren't going to get repaired so it's more just a case of a delayed collapse".
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Democratic institutions only have strength when they have legitimacy, and we're seeing pretty much all of that legitimacy being destroyed in real time.