Political Scientists Reassure Americans That Stripping Minorities Of Citizenship Usually Where Descent Into Fascism Peters Out

To accept Hawaiian and Alaskan statehood, mainland politicians would have to reconcile themselves to the prospect of states not firmly under white control.

Because a minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary.

Sensing that the price of failure is permanent marginalization, partisans on each side are girding for a crisis in which they are ready to break any guardrails to prevail. Everything is now on the table: gerrymandering, tilting election rules, subpoenas, impeachments, nuking the filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, and—in extremis—mobilizing mobs

When you got to ‘whites will be a minority,’ I heard the audience cheer. Can you imagine an audience of white people cheering ‘Oh, it’s going to be all white’? No you cannot. Those are your new overlords.”

The expanding polarization has made it painfully clear that something is not quite right.

Americans certainly stand out in one respect. Perhaps because they once expected better, Americans have grown grindingly pessimistic about the prospects for their old republic on its current course.