> From: Noelle <noelle> > Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 07:53:50 -0800 (PST) > > We'll point out one other thing: The authoritarian impulse usually > doesn't last long, particularly once its central figure is no longer > in power. Within a few years of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, > Francisco Franco, and Hideki Tojo, to take four examples, their > nations had functional democracies. Yeah, but think of what it took to get Adolf Hitler out of power.