Trump might have to be prosecuted to save American democracy, an expert on authoritarianism argues

Business insider ^ | 06/15/2022 | Charles R Davis

[ChicagoConservative27]

Ruth Ben-Ghiat spends a lot of time thinking about authoritarianism. An historian at New York University, she is an expert on the rise of fascism in Italy and, most recently, author of the the book, "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," tracing the erosion of democracy from Russia to the United States of America.

She is keenly focused on what happens when those in power lose their grip on it.

"The authoritarian playbook has no chapter on failure," Ben-Ghiat wrote in a November 2020 piece for The Washington Post. "Nothing prepares the ruler to see his propaganda ignored and his charismatic hold weaken until his own people turn against him."

[ChicagoConservative27]

Ruth is a demented POS

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Were not a democracy.

[taxcontrol]

Reminder - American is not now nor has ever been, a Democracy. It is a constitutional representative republic. That is a significant difference.

[bray]

The Communist Party is panicking.

[cdcdawg]

“Ruth Ben-Ghiat spends a lot of time thinking about authoritarianism.”

I’m sure she does.

[Vaquero]

SPJNK

[KC_Conspirator]

Business Insider is a leftist, woke, piece of crap.

[butlerweave]

We’re living in dangerous times when the left wants it all and don’t care what they have to do to get it

[Ann Archy]

Just another leftist Jewess who is ANTI-CHRISTIAN!

[yldstrk]

Of course it’s a female idiot.

[dirtboy]

Absolute gaslighting. The Deep State are the real authoritarians.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Says the authoritarian psychopath.

[proust]

To save democracy, we must become the authoritarians!

[FLT-bird]

LOL! Unless we take the choice away from the voters, they might elect him!

We have to save “our democracy” by not allowing the voters a Democratic choice.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"The authoritarian playbook has no chapter on failure," Ben-Ghiat wrote in a November 2020 piece for The Washington Post. "Nothing prepares the ruler to see his propaganda ignored and his charismatic hold weaken until his own people turn against him."

That's Brandon!

[PeterPrinciple]

an expert on authoritarianism

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think about that...........................

[joshua c]

bet she is a big fan of stalin, mao, etc

[MarvinStinson]

[nicollo]

Simple projection.

But it’s worse:

These leftist idiots think they are so right about everything that they think anyone who disagrees with them is an “authoritarian” and “fascist.”

She honestly believes this.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

The only just thing that is waiting to happen to the New York University employee is that President Trump and the majority of the American public legally wipe up the floor with her. Academia has set itself into a death spiral. There’s just so much nonsense that can be pushed under the rubric “curriculum” and just so many lame brains who can hired before these universities and colleges totally collapse from within. Nobody will spend a dime to go them, since they are selling nothing but nonsense and turning even the hard sciences into pablum.