Democracy turning to dictatorships is no new story.
Even Burke welcomed the French Revolution in the beginning.
Eminent Americans praised it. But it all ended in a forest of guillotines.
Mr. Woodrow Wilson enthusiastically welcomed Alexander Kerensky's government which was to make Russia "fit for a league of honor." But how long did it last?
The Weimar Republic, the near-republican Italian monarchy, the Spanish republic, the "decolonized" free nations from Haiti to Tanzania, from North Vietnam to Indonesia, Latin America from Santo Domingo to Buenos Aires all have been grievous disappointments to "progressive" Americans, all terminating in dictatorships, civil wars, crowded jails, confiscated newspapers, gallows and firing squads, one-party tyrannies, sequestrations, nationalizations, "social engineering."
~ Erik von Kuehneldt-Leddihn in his classic work, LEFTISM.
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