“Trump’s appetite for lebensraum, his claim of unlimited power, his support for the global far right, his politicization of the justice system, his deployment of performative brutality, his ostentatious violation of rights, his creation of a national paramilitary police—all of those developments bespeak something more purposeful and sinister than run-of-the-mill greed or gangsterism.”
“is there any point in calling Trump a fascist, even if true? Doesn’t that alienate his voters? Wouldn’t it be better just to describe his actions without labeling him controversially?
Until recently, I thought so. No longer. The resemblances are too many and too strong to deny. Americans who support liberal democracy need to recognize what we’re dealing with in order to cope with it; and to recognize something, one must name it.”
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“Yes, it’s fascism”
By #JonathanRauch for #TheAtlantic
Jonathan Rauch: Die Kultur der Denunziation
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theoblog.de/jonathan-rauch-die-kultur-der-denunziation/46778/
"What's different about a liberal democracy, as opposed to an *illiberal* democracy, is there are a lot of things majorities cannot do. They must protect minority rights. That's why we have the Bill of Rights, why we have the First Amendment."
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We judge a liberal democracy by; does it tolerate ... the speech of minorities, who take very different views from the majority. "
#JonathanRauch, 2025
https://www.econtalk.org/why-christianity-needs-to-help-save-democracy-with-jonathan-rauch/
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How does a nice Jewish boy who is also a gay atheist have the chutzpah to lecture Christianity on its obligations to democracy? Listen to author Jonathan Rauch talk about his book Cross Purposes with EconTalk’s Russ Roberts as Rauch makes the case for what he calls a thicker Christianity.
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