Still, we can glimpse a ray of hope in Trump’s swift metamorphosis from a direct threat to democracy to the butt of jokes about “massive dumps.” There’s an important lesson here. Authoritarians cannot be shamed or reasoned with, the way believers in democratic norms typically can be. There is no arguing authoritarians down, bargaining with them, or laughing them away. But authoritarians do respond to power. Power is how Trump was finally stopped and beaten, and revealed as the small, strange man he always was. And power is what it will take to stop the rise of American fascism.
Read Amanda Marcotte’s riveting Dec, 3rd Article here: https://www.salon.com/2020/12/03/trumps-outrageous-lies-used-to-be-terrifying – now-theyre-just-pathetic/
