A friend asked me what I think the point of no return was for the US. When did it get so bad there's no saving it.
After going through a few inflection points - Nixon unpegging the dollar and let's not talk about Watergate; the entirety of Reganomics, Bush II and his made up war in Iraq....
Honestly, I think the turning point was Obama. Nothing being Obama's fault. He was great.
I really think seeing a Black president unearthed what was previously just simmering discontent. Things may have held on a bit longer for the underbelly racists if they didn't see a living, breathing Black president and all the inherent threats that brings to them. They may have tolerated all the social and racial justice stuff just a bit longer since deep down, they didn't think it would actually threaten their status quo.
When that threat became real, they mobilized. They would no longer accept a democratic system because they were getting outnumbered. They were getting outnumbered by the tolerant educated people combined with immigrants (immigrants were fine as cheap labour before, remember?)
It isn't that they were willing to throw away a democratic system to get what they want. The democratic system was the very thing that now threatened them. The demographics of the future did not favour the social order that put them at the top of the food chain.
All this talk about Republicans 'risking' democracy won't do a thing. Democracy isn't collateral damage, it's the target.
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