Rethinking democracy 102: What are the 3 fundamental lessons learned from facing exism movements and dictatorship threats 2016-2024?

The coming of exims movements like 2016 Brexit and 2016 Usexit meant that the liberaldemocracy landscape had changed from one where different normal democratic outcomescompete for power against other normal democratic outcomes to one where normal democraticoutcomes compete against extreme democratic outcomes for access to power, yet what changedin the liberal democracy landscape is not well understood. In 2020 Trumpism fell and in 2024Brexism fell and there was a shift back from temporary authoritarianism to normal liberaldemocracies, one shifted back under a non-peaceful transfer of power claiming electoral fraudwithout evidence, and the other reverse back through a peaceful transfer of power withoutclaiming electoral fraud, yet the reason why transfer of power went that way is not wellunderstood too. And the need to understand what changed and how this change affect incentivesfor peaceful or not-peaceful transfer of power and why raises this relevant question: What are the3 fundamental lessons learned from facing exism movements and dictatorship threats 2016-2024? Among the goals of this paper is to provide an answer to this question.