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
Well that’s easy,I would let them do it,do absolutely nothing,he will not be sworn in until January,let them riot,burn cause havoc and let Biden deal with it.
lol Trump needs to do is announce his tax cut plans,his Tarriffs ,his energy policy and move on
Is it possible for a president to give “blanket pardons” for federal crimes without naming each individual?
What am I thinking? Since when does federal law and the Constitution matter to democrats?
Cut them out of your life.
You’ll be better off and happier.
bttt
There will be blood if Trump wins. Expect the large cities to burn for days or weeks.
I am totally serious. The George floyd riots will be tame in comparison.
Plus ANTIFA, BLM, anarchists, Communists, and every other crazy snowflakes you can think of...
They did this shit when Trump won in 2016.
The media didn’t cover it.
Point taken, but declaring a “Nation Emergency” or “Martial Law” could suspend the Constitution, and any challenges would be tied up in court for years.
They don’t need priming.
A Trump victory will unleash revolutionary violence, and the people acting in Biden’s name may help them win.
“ 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....”
If the regime chooses violent resistance, you will be dealing with the US Army and USMC, not Antifa/BLM.
Yep. Democrats trashed downtown DC on the day Trump was inaugurated in 2017.
IIRC, not one went to prison.
they probably are demon occupied
many of us distill current politics into a war between good and evil
I give demoncrats a wide berth and cannot trust them
yep
biden already said they would use F16s against us
Of course, the cancerous MSM will never point out she’s doing way worse than what they always accuse Trump of doing on J6.
“ IIRC, not one went to prison”
The judge in charge dismissed all charges against rioters. The new government did nothing about it.
A vice president, if and when he wins...
She has to certify it.
The same woman who had told people we must stop at NOTHING to keep him out of the oval office.
You think she will?
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