Absolutely no room for denial
He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country… a fascist to the core.
— General Mark Milley (retired), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Trump, speaking about former President and felon Donald J. Trump
Trump vows to be a dictator. Only “for one day,” but I remind you that the “one day” part is meaningless, since on the “one day” you grant yourself all power so can pretend you’re not a dictator and are acting within the law the very next day.
He promises a mass ethnic purge of immigrants, including legal ones, and says he’ll expel 15 million people and that they will have to do “terrible things” to people. There are no cases in history where this doesn’t turn into a broader purge – which he’s said he wants.
Now he just says he’s ready to use the military against his greatest – his worst – enemy: domestic political opponents.
Against you and me. Against us.
We know this.
We all know this.
What’s it take?
Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat told NBC News that Trump’s threats to curb dissent are “out of the autocratic playbook.”
“As autocrats consolidate their power once they’re in office, anything that threatens their power, or exposes their corruption, or releases information that’s harmful to them in any way becomes illegal,” Ben-Ghiat said.
“He’s actually rehearsing, in a sense, what he would be doing as head of state, which is what Orban does, Modi is doing, Putin has long done,” she added, naming the dictatorial leaders of Hungary, India and Russia, all of whom Trump has lavishly praised.
— Rolling Stone Magazine, “Trump Wants the Military to Target Americans Who Oppose Him,” 13 October 2024. By Peter Wade.
I don’t know anymore.
What does it take?
If you have any Trumpy friends or family, ask them: do they really want to end the Republic? Do they really want to live in a dictatorship? Do they want literally everything in their lives to be about political compliance to the leader, at the point of a gun?
Is that what they really want? To destroy American experiment? To end the United States as a democracy?
Ask them. Make it clear. Make them use small words, make them explain it to you like your four, make them try to make you understand. And don’t let them deny, because there is no room for denial. It’s all there, in his words, from his mouth, and yes, it is Trump being Trump, because this is literally who he is, and who is always has been.
Do they hate America that much?
Ask them.
22 days remain.
@solarbird You're missing the important part of the sentence, though.
He vows to be a dictator for one day? But the one day is meaningless? No, the dictator part is meaningless, because the presidency doesn't give anybody that choice.
It's not like on inauguration day the elected president fills out a piece of paper saying whether he's going to be a dictator or not. No. By definition, the president is not a dictator.
All of these people running around with their hair on fire are just peddling the same sensationalized nonsense that is just not a part of the US government.
Now, Trump and his allies say that he was joking and making fun of, well, the sort of people who say this sort of stuff. It's probably true, you're playing into his joke, playing into his strategy. I wish you wouldn't fall for him like that.
But even if it wasn't a joke, then he's just more pathetic and more impotent because he doesn't have that choice.
Either way, Trump's a joke. And he needs to be treated that way, because taking him seriously is half of what got him elected.
