Opening Our Eyes To Hindsight May 8, 2024May 7, 2024 The rule of law — and democracy — are mortal. We’ve already begun losing the rule of law. Democracy is already faltering. Rachel Maddow grabs us to make sure we’re paying attention. “Democracy is losing the propaganda war,” writes Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic: Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. And boy are they succeeding. Not reading her piece — or watching Maddow — won’t make these huge threats any less real. All we need do for democracy to triumph is win big in November. Help? Volunteer? Unlike the Germans and Italians who freely elected wannabe dictators (who then soon were) nearly a century ago, we have the benefit of hindsight. We can see what happened. [If Monday’s short post — Part II of “Should Joe Debate?” — arrived garbled, as it seems to have for some of you, please try again. It’s been fixed.]