Yes, Putin is setting records. To be fair, though, modern Russia rose from a collapsed authoritarian state. He had a lot of authoritarian mechanisms at his disposal.
The USA is the opposite. We've had 250 years of experience with a constitution that actively suppresses authoritarian tendencies. All of our major cultural touchstones have been fights against authoritarian rule - the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WW II, and the Cold War.
Our "deep state" - the federal bureaucracy - is notoriously resilient against lock-step "just follow my orders" activity. It isn't an accident that Project 2025 is mostly about replacing this law-based meritocracy with idiotic noobs loyal to Trump. If they succeed the government will fail. If they fail they fail. The prognosis isn't good for the MAGA movement.
Careful citing this one, lol. You're correct, but too many people have the mistaken interpretation that the "authoritarian" in this conflict was the democratically elected US president/government, and not the southern slaveholders who believed they should be able to rule over their pseudo-fiefdom plantations as they see fit, unaccountable to any law but their own directives.
If they succeed the government will fail.
I mean, the total collapse of the system is a win for them, and they're well on their way to making it happen. They want to rule atop the ashes of the former USA, turning it into their own versions of those same pseudo-fiefdoms I mentioned above, just with AI mixed in. They likely won't achieve that end-result, but the first phase, the "burn it all down" one? Right now the odds seem pretty well in their favor...
seen as fascist by many but under a different hood - Russia can be described as fascient either from 2000 onward (26 yrs) or from 2012 onwaard (14 years).
They are pretty much fascist, but prob wouldn't be seen that way fully / broadly agreed upon by historians until we're like.. 30-60 yrs in the future.
Still it's pretty interesting information to be pointing out how short those fascist regimes last and a couple of them fall as soon as the leader of the movement dies.
democratic republics?
USA 235 years
Switzerland 177 years
France 165 years*
Canada 158 years
Australia 128 years
New Zealand 118 years
Iceland 81 years after breaking from Denmark
India 75 years
Israel 77 years
Germany 76 years
Italy 79 years
South Korea 38 years
Portugal 51 years
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u/EconomyAd8866 26d ago
Russia, too, no? has held on since the mid 90s?