A thought about the comments about our country devolving into an authoritarian government like Orban's Hungary. Our country has never been under a dictatorship, like the history of the European countries or have really been a dictatorship to another country so the loonies, here, wanting to follow that path don't really have the experienc…
A thought about the comments about our country devolving into an authoritarian government like Orban's Hungary. Our country has never been under a dictatorship, like the history of the European countries or have really been a dictatorship to another country so the loonies, here, wanting to follow that path don't really have the experience of how to go about it. I am sure some of the minions such as Stephan Miller and Vought have read books about the process but as much as I used to read voraciously on various subjects, reading about Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" does not make me some kind of expert on the art of war. I would posit that the rapid dismantling of our intuitions makes me think that they do not take the lessons of the occupation of Iraq, dismantling of the whole of the army and civilian police forces, to heart. Erdogan and Orban slowly slowly caught the monkey and therefore were able to corrupt their institutions to their benefit. This administration, as has been pointed out more than once on your podcast and The Bulwark in general, has fundamentally changed this country and I hope there is someone or a group of someones thinking about how to modernize our Constitution when we pass through this time of horrors. We will pass through but it will probably take a generation or two to get back to some form of representative government. No guarantee though, as the Assyrians probably couldn't imagine their passing.
A thought about the comments about our country devolving into an authoritarian government like Orban's Hungary. Our country has never been under a dictatorship, like the history of the European countries or have really been a dictatorship to another country so the loonies, here, wanting to follow that path don't really have the experience of how to go about it. I am sure some of the minions such as Stephan Miller and Vought have read books about the process but as much as I used to read voraciously on various subjects, reading about Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" does not make me some kind of expert on the art of war. I would posit that the rapid dismantling of our intuitions makes me think that they do not take the lessons of the occupation of Iraq, dismantling of the whole of the army and civilian police forces, to heart. Erdogan and Orban slowly slowly caught the monkey and therefore were able to corrupt their institutions to their benefit. This administration, as has been pointed out more than once on your podcast and The Bulwark in general, has fundamentally changed this country and I hope there is someone or a group of someones thinking about how to modernize our Constitution when we pass through this time of horrors. We will pass through but it will probably take a generation or two to get back to some form of representative government. No guarantee though, as the Assyrians probably couldn't imagine their passing.