by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m reading a book about the death of Germany democracy in the days leading up to the Nazi take over in 1933 and I keep thinking about how much the MAGA movement is similar in its dynamic to the Nazis.
So, barring something really unexpected, I suspect MAGA will be the death of American democracy sooner or later.
But how?
Well, as far as I can determine, there are two main ways it happens.
One would be a major domestic terrorist attack. This would give Trump the cover he needs to seize control in a more direct manner than he has to date. If something as big as 9/11 happened under Trump’s watch I’m *sure* he would suspend elections and probably declare martial law.
The other way is not as exciting, but just as potent — it’s ultimately not Trump but his successor who snuffs out American democracy. I have a growing sense that it might be Ivanka Trump who is Trump’s hand-chosen successor and that she might be the “velvet fist” that ends American democracy.
She would be the happy face to while her actual administration might be done under the watchful eye of a fucking fascist like Stephen Miller. Something like that. Something whereby she ostensibly is a “friendly” MAGA while in fact the actual government is fascist in an unpresendent way.
Anyway, I just don’t see American democracy rebounding. At least not in my life time. It’s on a death watch — its in hospice, if you will — and soon enough we’ll be a true “managed democracy” like they have in Russia.
