Eureka Phoenix to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoBarack Obama Is Also Scared Shitless That Donald Trump Could Win Another Term: Reportwww.vanityfair.comexternal-linkmessage-square362fedilinkarrow-up1885arrow-down173
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minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish19•1 year agoYes, but by the same token, you can’t honestly say that America chose him to be president. We did not. Our broken electoral system did.
minus-squareAlien Nathan Edwardlinkfedilink5•1 year agothe thing about tyranny of the majority is that it can’t be replaced by tyranny of the minority. it’s absolutely working as our founders intended though: racist, conservative, and biased in favor of the wealthy.
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoThe intent was to keep a populist tyrant like Trump out of office, so it most certainly is not working as intended.
Yes, but by the same token, you can’t honestly say that America chose him to be president. We did not. Our broken electoral system did.
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the thing about tyranny of the majority is that it can’t be replaced by tyranny of the minority. it’s absolutely working as our founders intended though: racist, conservative, and biased in favor of the wealthy.
The intent was to keep a populist tyrant like Trump out of office, so it most certainly is not working as intended.
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No, just figuratively.