Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Biden: US democracy cannot survive threat of MAGA Republicans" video.

  1. "It is fear that makes people so willing to follow brash, strong-looking demagogues . . . capable of cleansing the world of the vague, the weak, the uncertain, the evil. Ah, to give oneself over to their direction—what calm, what relief." -- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mus solini to the Present “If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
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  2. There are aspects of Biden that I can relate to one of my favorite presidents. Harry S. Truman's campaign slogan was "give'em he// Harry." But Truman famously said "I never gave anyone he//, I simply told the truth, and they thought it was he//."
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