[designerarvid]

Not to get into politics too much, but surely that is a bit different. EU right wing populism and conservative raise had been slowly happening for some 15-20 years. US for 14 months.

[etherus]

Trump was elected in 2016, the Snowden leaks are from 2013. These processes have been going on for a while, and those aren't the earliest indicators.

[brandensilva]

We can go all the way back to the Patriot Act honestly. All admins have perpetuated this. Trump is just end game.

[moxifly7]

The AfD in Germany scheduled their party conference in Weimar, Thuringia to take place exactly 100 years to the day after a famous Nazi rally in... Weimar, Thuringia...

and they say it's a coincidence.

[RGamma]

The US has weakened structurally a lot over the past decades. Democracy ends slowly then suddenly I guess.

[cyanydeez]

uh...fox news started from NIXON, so too were the far right judges. this republican farce hit a tipping point, it didnt just suddenly be fascist. its like bitcoin and they suddenly saw they had 51%. whether its true is debateable but this isnt just a few months.

[bananamogul]

"NIXON" (also known plainly as Nixon) was "far right?"

You must be joking.

By any measure, and in every poly sci department, Nixon is viewed as moderate or even slightly left wing.

He created the EPA, signed the Clean Air Act, created OHSA, signed NEPA, monkeyed with wage and price controls, signed a breath-taking number of anti-discrimination and affirmative-action orders, pushed school desegregation in the South...Nixon would be called a "progressive" today.

I know. Your baby boomer grandparents thought anyone who wasn't McGovern must be Hitler, but...Nixon was pretty liberal. Regan ran against him in the 1968 primaries just for this reason.