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.
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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.
If the media knows anything, it’s dics and taters.
We’re in a dictatorship NOW, soooo....getting President Trump back to the WH will reverse the situation
Alinsky 101: Accuse your enemy of what you’re doing.
Same Dem playbook since Reagan and the GOP still can’t seem to figure out an effective counter to it...
A dictator and his MAGA terrorists — that’s what we are to the #ing Rats. They’re damn well fortunate that we’re not.
Yep, pretty clear. Dictators love to give 24 minute hate speeches with a blood red background, framed by their military. Oh, wait.......
That was Brandon and the demonrat party.
That’s correct.
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.
This snot-nosed kid has no clue who or what he is really supporting, because he is nothing more than a useful idiot.
A dictator would take our guns away and control the media.
Now, which political Party has been doing that for decades and decades?
Trump term likely would be more radical than his first.
A blessing come true.
The Bat Signal has been activated!
Shoulda seen George Conway on CSpan this morning. He was apoplectic when a Trump supporter called in.
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
If you keep playing by the rules, against an enemy that isn’t playing by those rules, then you will LOSE.
Every time.
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