“The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism,” Garrett Graff, the American historian and author, wrote in August. “In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here.”
One awakes to new horrors each day. And it is difficult to grasp – and painful to realize – just how far gone we are, and how quickly it has happened.
Again an article pretending America’s blatant violence wealth inequality and imperialism was just fine before Trump.
Tipped over the edge means it was right at the edge already. So not really.
Even if it’s not telling the full story, as long as it makes MAGA voters regret their choices, right?
… wishful thinking, I know.