America needs to talk about how Trump's deportation plan is really dictatorship

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3. thus further popularizing dictatorship

We're coming face-to-face with some deep, primal, long-standing tendencies to take sides, to reject "the other". Representative democracy doesn't do this nearly as well as populist nationalistic dictatorship. That crowd of several hundred protestors won't be back after day 3, but the deportations will proceed apace.

This looks like a systemic problem rooted in our nature -- maybe part of the Western civilization package, or maybe a trait inherited from thousands of generations of human evolution, but we do seem predisposed to exclusionary tribalism.