Has a War on Democracy Been Declared?

When a Head of State is Legitimizing Political Violence You Should Be Very Worried

umair haque
Eudaimonia and Co
Published in
8 min readOct 1, 2020

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Donald Trump standing in profile in mid-speech, with the seal of the POTUS behind him
Photo Credit: Jim Watson

By now, you’ve probably heard what Trump said during the debate: he told the Proud Boys to “stand by.”

In other words, a head of state literally gave a fascist paramilitary hate group orders, in public, from the debate stage, to prepare…

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