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“As Joseph Schumpeter remarked, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, but you can fool enough of the people for long enough to do irreversible damage.” (Can It Happen Here? Quotes)
Cass R. Sunstein
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“As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust, so there are other qualities in human nature which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence.”
Cass R. Sunstein
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“If public opinion cannot express itself through political associations, newspapers, and electoral politics, it will be channeled into mob violence.”
Cass R. Sunstein
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“In the long term, Trump, if successful, may be able to replace disloyal appointees with loyal appointees, and may be able to attract loyalists to civil service positions. In the short term, he can threaten to undermine agencies that fail to do his bidding or in any other way pose a threat to his power.”
Cass R. Sunstein
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“It can be masked with a veneer of legality, it can be cloaked with plausible deniability. It is always possible to justify each incremental step.”
Cass R. Sunstein
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“Worst of all, we might miss the real opportunities for a thoughtful, other-regarding reconciliation of two critical parts of our human nature: the desire to liberate and enable the individual, and the impetus to protect and serve the collective.”
Cass R. Sunstein
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