Posted on 10/18/2024 5:13:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The purpose of constantly invoking the specter of a dictatorship under Trump is to condition Democrats to react violently if Harris loses.
By now it’s commonplace to note that Kamala Harris often seems out of her depth, like she’s unsure what to say about policy, or how to explain her past positions, or why she hasn’t already done the things she’s promised to do if she’s elected given that she’s the current vice president.
But on one particular subject she’s been consistent and forceful throughout her campaign. She’s adamant that Donald Trump will destroy America if he’s reelected. And not “destroy” in the sense of enact bad policies, but that he’ll round people up with the military and put them in camps.
She talks about this all the time now. At one point during her Wednesday evening interview with Bret Baier on Fox News, she became visibly upset after Baier played a clip of former President Donald Trump calling out the weaponization of government and the endless investigations and lawfare he’s been subjected to.
The vice president, her voice rising in outrage, jabbed her finger at Baier and said, “You and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people. He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest. He has talked about locking people up because they disagree with him.”
At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania this week she told the crowd that former President Donald Trump considers anyone who doesn’t support him to be an enemy of the United States. “He is saying he would use the military to go after them.”
Earlier this week, during an audio town hall with Charlamagne Tha God, Harris claimed without a hint of irony that if Trump is elected he’ll use the Department of Justice “as a weapon against his political enemies,” adding, “You know who does that? Dictators do that.” At one point during the show, she agreed with a caller who said Trump will lock “anyone who doesn’t look white into camps,” replying, “You’ve hit on a really important point and expressed it I think so well.”
That’s just a sampling from this week, but there are many other recent examples. In the waning weeks of the presidential election, Harris has been deploying increasingly extreme rhetoric about Trump and the dangers he poses to the country. Even before Harris seized the Democratic nomination from President Joe Biden, the idea that Trump is an existential threat to American democracy was the refrain of the Biden campaign. Harris has taken that theme and run with it.
The purpose of it isn’t just to scare voters into casting their ballot against the former president, or to provoke some unstable would-be assassin into taking a shot at Trump (although some Democrats no doubt see that as a happy by-product of this Trump-as-dictator rhetoric).
Its main purpose is to prime Democrat voters for violent resistance should Trump win in November.
Consider the lopsidedness of the rhetoric between the Trump and Harris campaigns. Trump often makes sweeping (and mostly true) statements about the deep state, about the border and illegal immigration, about crime, about how Harris and the Democrats are destroying the country. But when he uses the phrase “destroying the country,” he’s talking about things like crime, homelessness, drug addiction, rampant inflation and the cost of groceries. These things, he says, are the result of policies Democrats have put in place. If you’re looking for someone to blame, he says, blame Biden and Harris, because all these problems are their fault.
But that’s not what Harris and the Democrats are doing with their rhetoric. They’re not making a case that crime and inflation will be worse under Trump because of his policies. Democrats aren’t really interested in policy.
What they’re doing is pushing a narrative that Trump is going to be a fascist dictator if he wins office and use the powers of the presidency to go after ordinary Americans. That’s an extreme and frankly unhinged position with no basis in reality. You don’t say things like that unless you’re hoping to provoke a strong reaction, and the reaction Democrats are hoping to provoke is violent resistance to a second Trump term.
After all, if you really thought that Trump would order the military and the Justice Department to round up you and your family, wouldn’t you do anything to stop him? Wouldn’t you take to the streets to save your country and thwart the rise of a fascist dictatorship? At least two would-be assassins have taken the Democrats’ anti-Trump rhetoric seriously. Harris is hoping that many more people will do so between now and Election Day, and respond by rejecting a second Trump term — in the streets, if they must.....SNIP
ANTIFA and BLM are probably out practicing for the day they are turned loose by the Dims.
It's not going to go down like the summer of love this time.
I’m sure too. Their objective will be to provoke violent countermeasures. Then, the Dems will be able to say, told you so.
When what they actually fear is Trump won’t be a sock puppet.
Also, that more and more people are aware what is actually going on.
Yeah, let’s see how that works for them. Sadly, it will since the gov isn’t interested in enforcing the law except to use against the R’s and the American people.
20 Million illegals across every city in the USA rioting.
Textbook projection. Or she's just that stupid and clueless. Both are equally likely.
Depends. If Antifa/BLM limit their riots to big blue cities I say go for it. If they move out to the burbs and rural small towns, well then....
Well here’s a crazy idea.
Let’s meet them the....heck...head on for once.
Unless they’re ruining a dem town or city.
I’m tired of sitting back and watching.
I’m NOT advocating violence....but sometimes that tree of liberty....
I hope the protests are mostly peaceful.
I don’t think they will be.
Yep, psyop, but it is NOT her doing it. She like Biden is just the mouthpiece being used as a tool to perpetuate the psyop.
Came here for this post.
That might prove to be the undoing of these degenerate leftists. They should be cautious what they seek.
Against American WHITE people. If you're BIPOC, and especially if you're a criminal illegal alien invader you can pretty much do whatever you want.
The Dems have a monopoly on violence.
Their elites use the state against us.
Their ideologues infiltrate our universities, HR departments and culture to turn them against us.
Their thugs riot, destroy and silence us.
The Right refuses to do any of it back to them.
With no threat of mutually assured destruction, they have won.
My guess is that Election Denial will be back on the menu, boys
20 Million illegals across every city in the USA rioting.
Turn off their free stuff and housing then start arresting
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Long overdue, it’s about time to set some things straight.
They are practice rioters, I don’t think they understand the resolve of true Americans.
When their EBT, SNAP, free money for nothing dries up, they’ll try to take it from the earners. I don’t think that will go quite the way they think.
I'm sure that's true, but a frightening number of people is downright stupid. Some of them will never understand. They are not capable of it.
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