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rglullisyesterday at 11:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

That's a weak argument. If the institutions can collapse because a few powerful people can work against it, then the institution has already failed in the first place.

Trump and the general rise of Populism is not the cause of the fall of Western democracies, it is a consequence.


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mrhottakesyesterday at 12:54 PM

You don't seem to grasp that the answer isn't "oh well, Western democracies were just going to fail I guess"

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felixgalloyesterday at 12:55 PM

You're going to have to show your work on that one. Western democracies are suffering not because they are failing, but because they have been chipped away at for decades by fanatical right wing billionaires intent on eliminating taxes and securing their place in a perpetual oligarchy.