The former president’s allies are developing a plan that would immediately deploy the military to the streets against potential demonstrators.

The former president’s allies are developing a plan that would immediately deploy the military to the streets against potential demonstrators.

  • Kleinbonum@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    So use desperate strongman measures to prop up democracy lest it would fall to the fascists?

    Have you ever read about the last three democratically elected administrations of the Weimar Republic, and how they tried to use increasingly desperate measures like emergency orders to prevent the Republic from falling - which paved the way for the National Socialists to simply use the established standard and bypass Parliament completely once they were in power?