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A quote from John Dean, Nixon's White House counsel, from today's The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/05/watergate-50th-anniversary-john-dean-interview) :

“Not so much Trump but now the whole Republican party has shifted into this authoritarian stance. Not all the Republicans I know are that way but too many of them now think authoritarianism is just dandy because it works, it’s efficient. Well, Mussolini ran the trains on time, didn’t he – but at some expense.”

I think the assertion that Mussolini made the trains run on time has been challenged. The authoritarians are always full of lies when it comes to assessing their leadership capabilities. Such people are the annihilation of all positive value.

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And yet DeSantis’s signature executive overreach was on display in his comment that “it’s inappropriate to subsidize political activism of a private corporation.”

The other sentence is: 'It's appropriate to subsidize political activism I like from a private corporation"

The next sentence is: "It's appropriate for government to fund the political activism I like but not what I don't like"

What I'm trying to figure out is how to counter: 'My way or the highway". For example, I understand people who don't want abortion. Don't have one. I don't understand when those people make it impossible for others to have one.

Another example, I grew up with .22 and shot gun so I understand 'owning' a gun. What I don't understand is how 'gun ownership' then converts to "Every type of gun should be permissible in all our public spaces without any restrictions" or said another way 'The victims are to blame and should be hardening themselves while perpetrators can free-range'

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