Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy
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Photo caption: Donald Trump’s newfound enthusiasm for cryptocurrency may be one reason why Silicon Valley has embraced him. Photo credit: Kevin Wurm / Reuters. Opinion article by John Naughton. The Guardian – August 3, 2024.
In 2016, some said comparisons between the rises of Trump and Hitler were misguided. But as tech’s titans donate millions, worrying new parallels emerge
In How Democracy Ends, his elegant book published after Trump’s election in 2016, David Runciman made a startling point. It was that while the liberal democracy that we take for granted won’t last for ever, it will not fail in ways familiar from the past: no revolutions, no military coups, no breakdowns of social order. It will fail forwards in an unexpected manner. The implication was that people making comparisons to what happened in 1930s Germany were misguided. […]
