Simulating Democracy's End

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Simulating Democracy's End

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Law professor Rosa Brooks achieved notoriety by simulating Trump attempting to remain in power in 2019. Now she has simulated a second Trump presidency, and the results were not pretty. Evidently, there is much he can do to kill democracy and not a lot pro-democracy people can do to stop him:

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democracy- ... ated-Trump

Interview with Brooks:

https://youtu.be/g_pNCoSItlM?si=GwGFfWHfN6O0etk_
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
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