U.S. Downgraded to 'Non-Democracy'

[Beartracks]

77. Culmination of vast amounts of work from the southern Confederacy through the fascist Germans...

... all the way to today's oligarchs by way of the Kremlin. Playing the long game, buying up the media, pooh-poohing and demonizing those who warned about what they were doing, spreading vast amounts of disinformation, and then lucking into the most incredibly pliant, populist stooge.

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