The result is that through their senseless craving for prominence they stimulate among the masses both an appetite for bribes and the habit of receiving them, and then the rule of democracy is transformed into government by violence and strong-arm methods.
As for "Government by violence and strong-arm methods," modern tyranny for decades has relied on de Tocqueville's "Soft despotism," an insidious coercion through a regulatory regime that Tocqueville predicted, one which "Covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate." All the money to be redistributed will come with a plethora of such intrusive regulations from the agencies managing it.
Old-fashioned physical violence and intimidation in the streets dogged Trump's political rallies, and even followed Trump supporters to restaurants and other public venues.
Even worse, the principle of equality before the law, a bedrock of political freedom, has been abandoned for political favoritism, in part because authorities are wary of igniting violence.
Antifa has openly said that their violence is a tool of intimidation in the pursuit of political goals.
What is disturbingly different from the Sixties about last year's violence is that the Democrat establishment has not just tolerated the violence, but often encouraged and promoted it-just as Representative Maxine Waters did during the Chauvin trial when she incited protestors to get "Confrontational" if the wrong verdict was given.
If the Biden administration is successful at leveraging street-violence for political gain, the century-old progressive dream of transforming our Constitutional Republic into a tyrannical technocracy will be much closer to fulfillment, our country's fisc much closer to bankruptcy, and our government much closer to a "Regime based on violence."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/blueprint-tyranny-bruce-thornton/
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