Britain's Reichstag Fire moment

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3. Without needing to state the obvious, the parallels to the US

The lesson seems to be that to prevent the collapse of representative democracy, the legislature must jealously guard its powers. Can we rely on that happening today? It doesn’t help that the British parliament, as was its counterpart in Weimar, has become more or less paralysed on the most important issue of the day. As in Weimar, the only majorities are negative ones—against, for example, Theresa May’s Brexit deal as well as, so far at least, every available alternative.

When a branch of the legislature has been so corrupted to not want to be a balance, instead wants to be an active enabler, we can watch the US government and checks/balances be thrown into the bonfires; bonfires of vanity, greed, and corruption. Thank you (r)epuglicons and limp-membered democrats.