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Your premise of democracy is wrong. Turkey is an authoritarian dictatorship at this point.


...and the US is shockingly close to being one.


How? Genuine question. Is it because Trump? Because while Trump and many of his supporters may be authoritarian, he was still duly elected, and if he had lost, Hillary would be President. In a dictatorship, Obama would have chosen his successor (generally).


Let's wait for the next election before we call this one.




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