silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoDeclining American Democracy: Trump is a Symptom, Not the Causepaulkrugman.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down14
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minus-squareThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-223 hours agoYep. When we didn’t punish to the fullest extent for what were crimes against the very concepts of democracy, we only gave permission for others to try again later, and time to better plan. They’ve literally been building to this since then.
minus-squareDaMummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down6·21 hours agoThose were crimes of the past. We have to look to the future.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up8·21 hours agoYeah that was Ford’s excuse at the time, too
Yep. When we didn’t punish to the fullest extent for what were crimes against the very concepts of democracy, we only gave permission for others to try again later, and time to better plan. They’ve literally been building to this since then.
Those were crimes of the past. We have to look to the future.
Yeah that was Ford’s excuse at the time, too