Message Received: What California Can Learn From Texas Ahead of Tuesday's Primary
History will pose the question: how on Earth did authoritarianism come to fruition within the two-party American system of government? After all, it should seem obvious that the American people should have opposed this rising fascist movement. Sure, as history showed, there would be those who would attach themselves as a way to protect their whiteness and punish the "other." But by and large, even the most apolitical of citizens should have seen the threat and voted appropriately. They may not have been lifelong Democratic Party voters, but the expectation was that in the face of a political party fully embracing fascism, every day American voters would recognize the threat and vote accordingly. When that didn't happen once but twice , there clearly was something fundamentally wrong with our electorate. Were we, as Americans, actually in favor of replacing 240 years of democracy with authoritarian rule? Or were there other, more sinister factors at play that unknowingly...
