“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”
--Dr. Maya Angelou
I believed Trump unequivocally when he was campaigning for president in 2015. If you're a German speaker, it's impossible to miss that his ranting, raving speeches are just like Adolf Hitler's. I believed Trump when he showed me that in 2015 & I've had not a single moment of disbelief since.
Donald Trump is a fascist who will have us, his enemies, exterminated at first opportunity.
You had every German with high school education gasping at "MAGA".
Re/establishing "Großdeutschland" was a key position of the nazis.
Then "again", what's that supposed to mean? Territorial expansion (politely put)? Reintroduction of slavery? (Certainly not back to wealth taxes of the 1960s. Or peace, love, and "hippieness".)
A German conservative news channel op ed called Trump "horror clown", back in 2016 already. https://www.n-tv.de/politik/politik_kommentare/Ein-Horrorclown-als-Sicherheitsrisiko-article19054201.html
@oliver_schafeld It's going to be a hard sell to convince normie americans that "make america great" is, some kind of bad thing. "what's that supposed to mean? " – this, at least, he was pretty clear about: blue collar jobs, not going to war, and immigration. (Not that he can really do much about blue collar jobs, I think.)
I think in 2016 it was easier to raise the alarm bells about fascism or whatever: he was talking about using libel laws against his detractors and that kind of thing. Nobody knew what he was going to do when in office: harmless weirdo or is he going to like nuke Tehran?
But then, when he was in office: no new wars & other foreign policy success, fewer deportations per year than under Obama, economy/jobs/etc did well. He wasn't inspiring/leader-like during covid at all, so he let us down there. But definitely more "harmless weirdo" than ""fascist dictator".
