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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian
ice is literally breaking up families and you're like "they're not wearing the uniforms i imagine when i think of a fascist state, so this doesn't count"
In the 1970s, the New Zealand government underwent dawn raids on Pacific Island overstayers and deported them. As of right now, we live in a fascist police state.
And that is pretty much the crux of my argument - more or less every "fascist" thing the Trump administration has done has had some equivalent thing done a million times before in the US or other countries while democracy survived just fine. If you judged every government in history by the standards you are currently judging the Trump administration, you'd predict that half the world would be currently under fascist rule.
That's why I'm going to reiterate my post above that no-one has yet responded to -
show me a model. Something that shows real predictive power about the path to authoritarianism, but also one that doesn't have a massively high false positive rate.