"Yet if you take their giddy expectation of incipient revolution seriously, then their sour disposition toward the democracy movement makes perfect sense. The episodes that seem to democracy scholars like harbingers of extreme danger—a president delegitimizing the news media and seeking to turn law enforcement into a political weapon—have been met on the socialist left with more equanimity. Why rouse yourself to defend a doomed and rotten system when a much brighter future beckons?
Jonathan Chait at New York explains "Why Trump's Assault on Democracy Doesn't Bother the Radical Left."
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