Instead of pointing to a potential second term, why not point to his dictatorial actions in his first term? Remember all those people he threw in jail, his use of federal troops against ANTIFA and BLM? Seems they are running the same script from 2016.
NBC News presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss on Sunday warned a second Donald Trump administration would be a “presidential dictatorship.”
Earlier this month, a New York Times article said Trump would, if he won the 2024 election, look at seizing presidential authority “over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House.”
“This is something that we have never seen before ever in American history,” Beschloss told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart. “This is a presidential candidate, Donald Trump, who’s actually telling us outright.”
Trump appeared to be taking a page out of the European dictator playbook, he added, noting how Italy’s Benito Mussolini and Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler also revealed their plans to obtain sweeping powers before they took office.
“God knows what’s in his mind that he’s not telling us,” Beschloss said of Trump.
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07-24-2023, 08:26 AM #1
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Michael Beschloss- "Second Trump Term Would Be A Dictatorship"
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My preference would be a group of elected leaders who were honest and not beholden to special interests or foreign powers in any way.
Obviously, as it stands - politicians are very honest and none are influenced in any way by powerful corporations or special interests, much less the laughable notion any are swayed in any way by any foreign country. They all put their constituents and this country above even themselves. Both parties are full of nothing but patriots and wonderful people. And there certainly are no unelected people in positions of massive sway and power heading corrupt shadow organizations or anything.
If Trump were elected and unturned this paragon of perfection, with the absolute best of us all representing us selflessly, this would be very bad.All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Trump is no doubt a wanna be dictator. And one could argue if he wins in 2024 that's a mandate for him to go ham on the government.
The good news is that being a dictator takes effort and Trump is too lazy and stupid to make that effort.Republicans are weak men who pretend to be strong
Democrats are strong men who pretend to be weak
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I mean … we all know that is the ultimate cultist’s wet dream.
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We were told countless times that trump would go after his political opponents, get us into foreign conflict, etc. etc. He did none of it.
Meanwhile, Biden's DOJ has relentlessly pursued Trump, has gotten us involved in foreign conflict. Biden has completely dropped all pressure on China from the Trump admin (perhaps because China literally owns his family... but nobody seems interesting in looking into that..).
Shouldn't we be worried about the guy in charge currently that is doing everything they claimed trump would do?
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07-24-2023, 09:29 AM #20
Remember when we told you why we all despise Trump and you all couldn't understand why and then we saw the fuking train wreck of his first (and only) term... two impeachments followed by Jan 6th and now endless indictments and facing massive amounts of prison time?...
Yeah, let's just say there is an INCREDIBLELY good chance Trump will spend a second term attempting to use the power of the office to exact revenge and trying to get the two term limit removed.
Good thing he'll never step foot in the White House ever again.
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Obama / Biden - uses multiple 3 letter agencies to target political rivals and their supporters, want to expand the government, wants to expand the court, policies weaken the US at home & abroad, your kids our our (governments) kids, uses media and media industries to push their narratives, Obama literally on video saying he would love a 3rd+ term using a shadow system, Biden on video saying he used $1billion of US tax dollars to halt investigation into his son/himself, destruction/ removal of US historical monuments & rewriting of history, keeps seeking ways to give government extra emergency powers, bribing potential voters with promises of free chit/handouts/bailouts
but Trump is a dictator to these leftists here?
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