No, the person most likely to end democracy will advocate rolling back freedoms to 'preserve' it, or to punish the wicked people that are considered their political enemies. The most likely person won't be a Democrat, but will almost certainly be a leftist that starts their own populist political party
Leftists don't believe America can be saved, they wouldn't "roll back freedoms," whatever the heck that means, they would dismantle the state and build up a new one.
Fascism has always been a right wing ideology. While leftists have made some terrible mistakes, you shouldn't pretend they are the only or main threat to democracy.
It's pretty wishful thinking to think Proj 2025 and all the other MAGAs are going to fade away after the orange man is gone. Did you not see De Santis' support before Trump entered the race?
If I have a bowl of rice, and one of the grains is actively trying to end my way of life, I don't mind when someone shoots at it with an assault rifle.
First of all: rice doesn't have that kind of agency
Second of all: shooting at a grain of rice in your bowl with an assault rifle is many times more likely to hit you than that specific grain of rice
Third, if that's REALLY the best analogy you could think of, you should just stop the whole "communicating your thoughts to other people" thing. Evidently it's not something you're ever going to get the hang of.
Fourth and finally: a propos of nothing except the fact that I just listened to an episode of My Brother, My Brother, and Me, horses are overrated, and not just by the McElroy brothers.
So, for all your haunted ideals, at the end of the day, you are no better than him. You are a narcissistic person that gets a perverse pleasure from the suffering of your perceived political enemies
Well, what if the guy that took Hitlers place was every bit as evil, but wasn't a bumbling idiot in military matters? Worse yet, what if he gave his scientist budgets and told them to make super weapons with no real interference? The first atomic bomb could have dropped on Bristol or Leningrad, instead of Hiroshima
The "bystander" was a fascist at a rally. Excuse me for not crying over someone cheering about installing a dictator, killing LGBTQ+ people, sending immigrants to camps, and destroying the fucking planet.