packgrad said:
Here's a link for the TDS crowd.
https://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html
Autocrat lol.
When you surround yourself with sycophants who "know what time it is" , and those individuals are openly saying plainly that "America needs a dictator", I don't think you're giving that the weight is deserves.
All of Trumps great accomplishments - tax cuts, judicial appointments, military and diplomatic appointments - were achieved thanks to serious work of folks like Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, John Kelly, William Barr, Pat Cipollone, John Bolton, Mike Pence, Mark Miley, etc.
Guess what? Trump and him minions hate all of those people now. Therefore none of these types will be in his second administration and in fact he would like them purged from the GOP and in some cases put on trial for treason. Heck, he called Chip Roy a RINO! Trump now hates Roy because he endorsed DeSantis, that's the only reason he gave for Roy being a RINO. Do you think Chip Roy is RINO packgrad? Because I don't.
So RINO is now just a label for folks who are disloyal to Trump. So I guess that makes me a RINO too. This blase approach to Trump saying he wants to rule like a dictator instead of represent the United States like an elected President is dangerous, and I do not understand why you don't even try to recognize the anti-constitutional and anti-conservative agenda for the potential Republican Presidential nominee.
Trump clearly wants to be an autocrat. He has continually praised autocrats in other countries from Viktor Orban to Kim Jong Un. It's a well established fact. He's been asked about it and confirmed it. It's not TDS, its his own words and communication! When you call your political enemies "vermin" and use language that undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" dehumanizes these people which is what fascists regimes in the past used to bring themselves to power.
So do I think Trump is Hitler or Mussolini? No. But looking at his second term agenda being discussed by his cronies in his campaign and discussed by people like Steve Bannon and Alex jones and Tucker Carlson would upend the norms of government. And I'm sorry, that's just not acceptable to me as the Republican nominee for President of the United States. That is some **** that usually comes from the Far Left. It's now coming from the Far Right and cloaked in patriotism and isolationism and you guys are just eating it up.
Does Trump want to be Hitler? Naw, Mussolini? Maybe. Huey Long? Most likely. packgrad, I encourage you to do some reading on Huey Long and then ask yourself where is the difference between he and Trump.
My basic view pre Trump is that it was very difficult for either an ignoramus or an evil genius to become President. This tilt to weaking of the political parties and politics as entertainment rather than electing competent people who actually want to do the tough work of running the government is what should be concerning to everyone on this board. We are working our way into electing ingoramuses and evil geniuses in the Republican party.
Why is Trumps language so dangerous? Because it serves to acclimatize his fans, many on this board to be comfortable with the idea of him being a dictator. Its already been used successfully in the past, as there are numerous threads excusing the many things that Trump did at the end of his first term that should have disqualified him in the mind of center to right wing minded folks to run for President ever again.
- Crowds chanting "Hang Mike Pence" are excused because they had good reason to be angry at Mike Pence to want to, you know, hang him.
- Banging porn stars
- Mishandling classified information
- Calling for the termination of the Constitution
Trump has convinced his supporters to change how they think about morality, national security, and the Constitution in the party that professed bedrock commitment to morality, national security, and the Constitution. That is what troubles me. That isn't TDS, that's listening to what Trump is saying in his speeches and taking him for his word that this is what he wants to do. It is sad that you and others on this board take no time answering any of these questions to convince me that I'm wrong, you just dismiss it as if I'm the problem.
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