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Becoming? So it wasn't authoritarian when black people were routinely beaten by police for drinking from the wrong fountain or looking at a white person wrong?
Or perhaps the genocidal occupation of the Philippines. Not authoritarian?
The early days of the republic when the entire economy was based on native genocide and all the work was done by millions of enslaved people weremovedd, tortured and sold like animals?
I'm not trying to be Mr Gotcha here, I'm trying to communicate that there is literally no good past we can turn to. It's always been like this, just lately the mask has come off
Every time liberals try to define "authoritarian" they just end up at
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