Nothing more than a heads up to a commentary at DER SPIEGEL (...don’t panic — it’s in English):
Democracy at the Tipping Point
Ultimately, indifference is deadly. The apathy. The feeling of impotence. And the idle silence that follows. People, including journalists, start thinking they can't do anything anyway. That proved to be the case in Turkey and Hungary and it has long been the situation in Russia and China as well. Will it also happen in the United States?
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Meanwhile, some media continue day-dreaming and thus become even more obsessive about labeling any person warning against the threat as hysterical.
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What, after all, should we be waiting for?
For Trump to show that he means business? He's already doing that. For him to start his first war?
For the U.S. to fade away, for its people to put up with Trump and to allow a process to start that will ultimately become irreversible?
[...] Donald Trump despises and threatens liberal democracy, he despises and threatens the world order and he is the most powerful man on the planet. The emergency is already upon us.
It seemed absurd just months ago that America would be facing a re-enactment of Germany some 80 years ago.
The narcissist in power. The propagandist having his ear. The secretary of education that puts faith above science. And so on…
Somewhere near the beaches of Normandie, thousands of American soldiers must weep in their graves...