<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><font dir="auto">I woke up today and saw the horrific news on TV that Trump has won again. It is incredibly bad on many levels. It is bad for the environment. The world will not be able to stop global warming without the U.S. </font><font dir="auto">It is bad for Ukraine as well. </font>To me it feels like the end of civilization and democracy. The people who voted for him probably do not read Paxton, Arendt or Levitsky and Ziblatt. Or do not care.<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div><div dir="auto">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246/how-democracies-die-by-steven-levitsky-and-daniel-ziblatt/</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">was wondering how this is possible. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">If we define populism as an ideology that presents "the people" as a morally good force and contrasts them against "the elite", who are portrayed as corrupt and self-serving t</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">hen this could be a reason why Trump is so successful. He is good at populism because he is corrupt and self-serving himself, and uses projection t</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space-collapse: preserve;">o accuse others.</span></div><p style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308163/what-is-populism-by-muller-jan-werner/9780141987378</span></p><br></div><div dir="auto">What do you think? Why have people voted for him although they know what kind of person he his? Are we doomed now? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>