• Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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    232 months ago

    Based as fuck, if more Americans had his balls we’d never have the fascism that Bush started.

    • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      52 months ago

      Wilson really kicked it off. Nixon and Reagan got the ball momentum. I don’t remember if Bush Sr. had a crime bill. Clinton poured fuel on the fire with his and Biden’s Crime Bill. Then W sealed the deal with the Patriot Act, among some other bits of SCOTUS shenanigans.

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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        21 month ago

        Very true, Dubya is just the one in my lifetime that has moved the overton window and fascism furthest. Normalized a lot of what Trump is aiming to do.