Mon Feb 27, 2017 03:29 PM
This is scary. History can repeat itself. Dictators know how to use a favorable emergency. http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/02/26/reichstag-fire-manipulating-terror-to-end-democracy/
The aspiring tyrants of today have learned the lesson of the Reichstag fire of 1933: that acts of terrorreal or fake, provoked or accidentalcan provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy. The most consequential example is Russia, so admired by Donald Trump, but the use of terrorist threats to create or consolidate authoritarian regimes has become increasingly frequent worldwide.
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