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Tankies on democracy... There's a bit too much to make separate posts, so it'll just be a collection in the comments.
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Partly true. Plenty communist regimes started by an election where the socialists won. Then reshaped the legal system to stay in power. For example 1948 Czechislovakia.
It’s why it works so well for modern fascists. Orban in Hungary never needed a coup. Just a slow erosion of all democratic institution, some cooperative police force to denigrate and intimidate political opposition. And voila - bulletproof permanent “majority”.
This process in under way in so many “democratic” countries right not it makes one’s head spin. USA, Israel, Poland. Of course Russia and Venezuela are lost causes
In short. Plenty totalitarian regimes. And plenty community regimes were elected. It’s the same story over and over again heck one could say they all just follow in the footsteps of Ceasar and Napoleon.