Nixon also did shit like signed off on the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The old fascists still cared about society functioning they just wanted to control it. Trump doesn’t give one fucking hoot how bad things get as long as he gets to be in charge.
Yeah. If Trump had talked to Nixon about colluding with the Russians to overthrow American democracy so he and his friends could steal a bunch of the wreckage, even Nixon would have clocked him and hauled him down to the Justice Department to sit in the dock for treason.
Of course, the germ was there even in Nixon. Just like Mr. Mayer’s system, it could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself, it was compelled to go all the way.
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Nixon also did shit like signed off on the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The old fascists still cared about society functioning they just wanted to control it. Trump doesn’t give one fucking hoot how bad things get as long as he gets to be in charge.
Yeah. If Trump had talked to Nixon about colluding with the Russians to overthrow American democracy so he and his friends could steal a bunch of the wreckage, even Nixon would have clocked him and hauled him down to the Justice Department to sit in the dock for treason.
Of course, the germ was there even in Nixon. Just like Mr. Mayer’s system, it could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself, it was compelled to go all the way.