The political left knows that pure ‘democracy’ naturally devolves into pure anarchy, and that this is basically a middle finger to the system that prides itself on ‘democracy’. It’s the Cloward-Piven strategy but applied to voting.
In terms of percentages, Pol Pot is the top genocidal person in modern history, having murdered one third of his countrymen. In terms of total body count, Islam easily wins with about 400 million murdered in South Asia over five centuries. That’s 0.4 billion for clarity.
Watergate was a pivotal point in U.S. politics mostly because that was when the collective media, Washpo included, realized the immense power they wielded that could bring down a sitting president, and they have acted accordingly ever since.
The fact that the policies and ideological bias of any particular person can make or break an entire nation’s fortunes is precisely the Achille’s heel that global marxism uses to get its foot in the door. One bad election is all it takes. That said I wish Argentina well.