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Trump, allies fire back at media warnings of second-term dictatorship
the (s)Hill ^

Posted on 12/05/2023 1:57:24 PM PST by Tench_Coxe

Headlines blaring warnings about how a second Trump presidency could slip toward dictatorship on Monday prompted a stiff pushback from allies of the ex-president, who is topping GOP primary polls just weeks before the Iowa caucuses.

The Washington Post, The Atlantic and The New York Times each published stories referencing a “Trump dictatorship” in recent days, arguing a new Trump presidency posed a threat to democracy. The Times wrote a second Trump term likely would be more radical than his first.

“All of these articles calling Trump a dictator are about one thing: legitimizing illegal and violent conduct as we get closer to the election,” Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), a Trump ally, wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Everyone needs to take a chill pill.”

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And a Washington Post opinion column penned by editor-at-large Robert Kagan headlined, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending,” made an extensive case that Trump’s reelection could feasibly set the U.S. on a path to becoming a dictatorship.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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Vance calls it out indirectly. They're "greenlighting" attempts to 'stop the dictator', with all that is implied with that.

The Kagan column stirred up the most chum. Yes, Victoria Nuland's husband Robert Kagan writing in a certain three letter agency's mouthpiece The Washington Post.

1 posted on 12/05/2023 1:57:24 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

If the media knows anything, it’s dics and taters.


2 posted on 12/05/2023 2:00:33 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

We’re in a dictatorship NOW, soooo....getting President Trump back to the WH will reverse the situation


3 posted on 12/05/2023 2:00:54 PM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Alinsky 101: Accuse your enemy of what you’re doing.


4 posted on 12/05/2023 2:03:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Same Dem playbook since Reagan and the GOP still can’t seem to figure out an effective counter to it...


5 posted on 12/05/2023 2:03:49 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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A dictator and his MAGA terrorists — that’s what we are to the #ing Rats. They’re damn well fortunate that we’re not.


6 posted on 12/05/2023 2:04:49 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Yep, pretty clear. Dictators love to give 24 minute hate speeches with a blood red background, framed by their military. Oh, wait.......


7 posted on 12/05/2023 2:08:12 PM PST by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: mykroar

That was Brandon and the demonrat party.


8 posted on 12/05/2023 2:09:33 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SMARTY

That’s correct.


9 posted on 12/05/2023 2:09:47 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Tench_Coxe
"The Times wrote a second Trump term likely would be more radical than his first."

In exactly what ways was Trump's first term "radical"? He started no new wars? He lowered unemployment? He made us energy self-sufficient? He tried to stem illegal immigration? He prioritized the American worker and American jobs? He stood up to China?

Most of the radical developments of his years came from the left: the endless BIM rioting; Seattle's "CHAZ" sedition; the extreme Covid policies; the sexualization of children with trans and LGBTQ+ propaganda; racially divisive CRT programs in the schools. As usual, the NYT is full of BS propaganda and lies.
10 posted on 12/05/2023 2:21:03 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Tench_Coxe

This is actually going to backfire (as long as it doesn’t inspire a radical to actually get rid of Trump).

This puts the air of inevitability out there and it will discourage people who really don’t want Trump but don’t want to waste time voting since he already won.


11 posted on 12/05/2023 2:34:36 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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By BRETT SAMUELS - 12/04/23 4:34 PM ET

This snot-nosed kid has no clue who or what he is really supporting, because he is nothing more than a useful idiot.


12 posted on 12/05/2023 2:37:57 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Tench_Coxe

A dictator would take our guns away and control the media.

Now, which political Party has been doing that for decades and decades?


13 posted on 12/05/2023 3:03:52 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Trump term likely would be more radical than his first.

A blessing come true.


14 posted on 12/05/2023 4:00:18 PM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: Tench_Coxe

The Bat Signal has been activated!
Shoulda seen George Conway on CSpan this morning. He was apoplectic when a Trump supporter called in.


15 posted on 12/05/2023 5:25:09 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: Dead Corpse

We would hate to get down to their level. There’s no coming back from that once we become like them.

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
- Kipling


16 posted on 12/05/2023 5:30:17 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: griswold3

If you keep playing by the rules, against an enemy that isn’t playing by those rules, then you will LOSE.

Every time.


17 posted on 12/05/2023 7:09:25 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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