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Trump's ballroom is more than just a story of corruption. White House historian Edward Lengel told me and @shirinsadeghi.bsky.social that it's a reflection of the man's "hatred for American democracy." www.theredoubt.net/trumps-ballr...
Trump's ballroom is more than just a story of corruption. White House historian Edward Lengel told me and @shirinsadeghi.bsky.social that it's a reflection of the man's "hatred for American democracy." www.theredoubt.net/trumps-ballr...
My generous read on it is that center-left politicians fear any forceful response will "escalate the situation," and their job as leaders it to _deescalate_ and calm things down.
Of course, the far right does not interpret this as liberals doing "good governance," but as liberals being pushovers.
In 1920s Austria, the center-left also proved incapable of standing up for itself in the face of ascendant fascism, demonstrating what one writer has described as social democracy's "serial failure of nerve."
(from "Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World" by Richard Cockett)
