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146 points

In 50 years this quote will be in textbooks and students will wonder how people nowadays could not see the signs

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Well it’ll either be in the chapter:

How Trump Saved America, The South Has Risen

Or

Democracy Survived, How America Repelled a Fascist

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79 points

Or possibly: The Fall of the American Empire

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34 points

The fall of the American republic…the fall of the empire comes a bit later

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Well, there’s Hitler who did exactly the same: publish a book, try not one but several coups, still get named chancelier legally. In France we like them too: we have 2 Napoléon who did the same thing. It almost happened another time in 1958, but the man they put in power was reasonable for once.

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22 points

“I just wanted fiscal responsibility!1!” says man that wasted money on Trump merch.

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It might be, but he has so many quotes that you could say this about.

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