when a democrat wins a close election, they scream for bipartisanship and insist that the democrat has to reach across the aisle and build bridges and find compromise and be wary of overplaying their hand and so on.

but when a republican wins by hook or by crook (mostly crook), they applaud their strong leadership when they show contempt for the majority that got cheated out of proper representation.

[link:https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-21/democratic-rage-would-look-something-like-this|

There are too many institutions that give structural advantages to the right: Congress (gerrymandering), the EC, the Senate which values land over people. Not the states, not the districts, but the HUMAN BEINGS in this country don't want the government we have. Long-term minority rule (and it could happen) will lead to the next civil war.

13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view—one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against “rotten” parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was “I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniples”—“maniples” being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.