One major reason that rich democracies are more stable is that capitalist development disperses human, financial, and organizational resources away from the state, generating countervailing power in society.
Steven Levitsky & Lucan Way: The Path to American Authoritarianism
If you only read one summery of the dangers of the Trump presidency, the above is a good one. It provides examples from 20th century on previous autocratic ambitions and how they’ve played out. Worth a read.
It’s only halfway through February of his first year and I’m already so utterly tired of seeing the face of him or his cronies. It’s time to look over our own houses – Sweden & EU – where the authoritarian tendencies have been on the rise the past thirty years. Just yesterday AFD came in second in the German elections, and that’s a straight-up fascist party.