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May 6, 2016 1:25 PM   Subscribe

Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic. by Andrew Sullivan [New York Magazine] And right now, America is a breeding ground for tyranny.
“And so, as I chitchatted over cocktails at a Washington office Christmas party in December, and saw, looming above our heads, the pulsating, angry televised face of Donald Trump on Fox News, I couldn’t help but feel a little nausea permeate my stomach. And as I watched frenzied Trump rallies on C-SPAN in the spring, and saw him lay waste to far more qualified political peers in the debates by simply calling them names, the nausea turned to dread. And when he seemed to condone physical violence as a response to political disagreement, alarm bells started to ring in my head. Plato had planted a gnawing worry in my mind a few decades ago about the intrinsic danger of late-democratic life. It was increasingly hard not to see in Plato’s vision a murky reflection of our own hyperdemocratic times and in Trump a demagogic, tyrannical character plucked directly out of one of the first books about politics ever written.”
posted by Fizz (4 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, there's still a lot of election left and some threads open; I'm not sure if Let's Hear What Andrew Sullivan Is Saying Lately is the best reason to kick off a new one. -- cortex



 
And OTOH, some think Andrew Sullivan (or people like him) is to blame for Donald Trump.
posted by demonic winged headgear at 1:33 PM on May 6, 2016


I keep seeing people share this article around and I cannot for the life of me figure out why Sullivan's 'The people to blame for right-wing lunacy is minorities asking to stop getting murdered by the state' dumbness has been met with anything but laughter

I am kind of just assuming most people don't read the whole thing because it's 7500 words of no arguments
posted by beerperson at 1:33 PM on May 6, 2016 [2 favorites]


the solution is rule by enlightened website-commentor Kings
posted by thelonius at 1:33 PM on May 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


love to be lectured about "extinction-level events" by vocal cheerleaders of the extinction of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, that's definitely the kind of "elite responsibility" we need to counterbalance all this dangerous democracy
posted by RogerB at 1:33 PM on May 6, 2016 [2 favorites]


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