Many fascist movements fade away with time. We tend to only focus on the ones that got power, because that’s when things go to shit. The ones that just fade away are boring and don’t get talked about much. Selection bias applied to history leads people to believe that there’s inevitability to things when there really isn’t.
Odds are Biden will win the election, Trump ends up in a prison cell, there’s some violence by some of the MAGAs but it’s easily put down, support for MAGA dies off. Of course this isn’t inevitable either, even a low probability of Trump becoming President again is scary and people should make an effort to prevent that from happening.
Saying that Trump winning is inevitable is simply not true, and only serves to demotivate people that might otherwise make an effort to prevent that outcome.
Many fascist movements fade away with time. We tend to only focus on the ones that got power, because that’s when things go to shit. The ones that just fade away are boring and don’t get talked about much. Selection bias applied to history leads people to believe that there’s inevitability to things when there really isn’t.
Odds are Biden will win the election, Trump ends up in a prison cell, there’s some violence by some of the MAGAs but it’s easily put down, support for MAGA dies off. Of course this isn’t inevitable either, even a low probability of Trump becoming President again is scary and people should make an effort to prevent that from happening.
Saying that Trump winning is inevitable is simply not true, and only serves to demotivate people that might otherwise make an effort to prevent that outcome.