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Lionel Mandrake

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16. Future historians will suggest various dates for the end of US democracy.

Reply to yaesu (Reply #12)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 11:58 PM

Feb 2025

11/5/24 is as good a date as any. (That's assuming the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government continue to offer no resistance.)

The death of US democracy is not like the death of the Weimar Republic. Practically everyone agrees that the latter occurred on January 30, 1933.

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Democracy is dying in the USA [View all] Lionel Mandrake Feb 2025 OP

Not dying...its dead. (n/t) Moostache Feb 2025 #1

I was writing RIP America 1776 to 1/20/25 sarcastically but now it is reality kimbutgar Feb 2025 #3

Until he is eliminated, then we have a power vacuum and no government structure to restore order. Moostache Feb 2025 #7

My family came here from Europe nearly 150 years before 1776. I had an ancestor who fought in the Revolution. elocs Feb 2025 #19

You may be right. Lionel Mandrake Feb 2025 #9

Inescapable conclusion. sop Feb 2025 #2

This doesn't usually end well for the mzmolly Feb 2025 #4

Some fascists thrived. Lionel Mandrake Feb 2025 #11

Well, there is a 50/50 mzmolly Feb 2025 #13

Yes, 50/50 sounds about right. Lionel Mandrake Feb 2025 #17

huge pushback in the courts bigtree Feb 2025 #5

It's more of a failure of democracy. J_William_Ryan Feb 2025 #6

Electoral college is DEI for Red States BadgerKid Feb 2025 #8

I've Got No More Fucks To Give. OverBurn Feb 2025 #10

It's official death was 11/5/24, but there may be enough DNA left to clone it in the future. nt yaesu Feb 2025 #12

Future historians will suggest various dates for the end of US democracy. Lionel Mandrake Feb 2025 #16

The Roberts court killed it with a thousand razor cuts. Jit423 Feb 2025 #14

Maybe so. Lionel Mandrake Feb 2025 #15

There was a thread here about how support for democracy in America was broad but shallow. How true. elocs Feb 2025 #18