• admiralteal
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    05 months ago

    Maybe. Maybe not. I won’t come to the defense of that, it was more of a hedge.

    • @JoBo@feddit.uk
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      15 months ago

      The argument works for the House of Lords, which has often acted as a moderating force (and loses power every time it does), despite its antidemocratic nature.

      I think it’s a non-starter for the Senate. It was deliberately constructed as a conservative brake on Congress, being heavily weighted to smaller (more rural) states which tend to be more conservative. True conservatism is obviously opposed to fascism but in practice, it isn’t (and neither is liberalism if it is feeling threatened by socialism).