Not only most of europe was overtaken by fascism in the thirties, currently you have democracies that were taken over by authoritarians such as Russia, Turkey and Venezuela.

So it appears to me there are still elephants around

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Dilettante_ 4 days ago | parent [-]

So if Russia, Turkey and Venezuela had stronger governments, they wouldn't be authoritarian?

	▲	breppp 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, if by stronger governments you mean stronger democratic institutions that could have fought populism, that would have helped. Democratic countries that are corrupt, weak and have poor cultural defense mechanisms against populism fail. In Germany such a mechanism is the one discussed in this thread, in the US it's a strong , almost religious belief in the constitution