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No more warnings: America has weeks to save Democracy
In the worst possible way we are living in the future. Back in 2016 I wrote about this future in an article that went viral. Around 20m people read the piece, all around the world. It caused a stir, predicting a dark future about how Brexit and Trump would play out. I refered to the cycles of self-destruction humans have initiated throughout history. I suggested that,
“At a local level in time people think things are fine, then things rapidly spiral out of control until they become unstoppable, and we wreak massive destruction on ourselves. For the people living in the midst of this it is hard to see happening and hard to understand.”
My point was simply that when things unravel it happens fast, without us seeing it coming. In that sense, I was right.
Here we are in 2020 with great American cities being evacuated as wildfires destroy homes, with people dying in a pandemic, and with democracies across the West falling to populism and authoritarianism.
America is months away from fascism. In her brilliant recent analysis of the history of American fascism, exploring early colour-shirt movements, the Klan, and…
