Meanwhile, 44 percent backed the American tradition of competing branches of government as a model, if sometimes “frustrating,” system.

Why would people want to live under an authoritarian’s thumb? It’s rooted, experts say, in a psychological need for security—real or perceived—and a desire for conformity, a goal that becomes even more acute as the country undergoes dramatic demographic and social changes. People also like to obey a strong leader who will protect the group—especially if it is the “right” group whose interests will be protected. Recall the Trump supporter who, during the 2019 government shutdown, complained, “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

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    That won’t count for shit when only 20% of us have guns or whatever the number is. Almost all of them do

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      They’re absolute cowards anyways. They get scared of a trans person in the bathroom or someone with slightly too much melanin in their skin walking by. They’d just implode or run away in fear if they see their opposition with a gun. Also, I’d say a lot more non-nazis than 20% have guns in America. Plenty of normal people have them

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        You can still shoot at shit your scared of, and generally they do a lot of it. It’s really dangerous to hand wave away shit like that.

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        Because its fucking scary have you seen what the people involved with project 2025 are saying?