Posted on 11/08/2024 3:40:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
American voters have made the choice to return Donald Trump to the White House, setting the nation on a precarious course that no one can fully foresee.
The founders of this country recognized the possibility that voters might someday elect an authoritarian leader and wrote safeguards into the Constitution, including powers granted to two other branches of government designed to be a check on a president who would bend and break laws to serve his own ends. And they enacted a set of rights — most crucially the First Amendment — for citizens to assemble, speak and protest against the words and actions of their leader.
Over the next four years, Americans must be cleareyed about the threat to the nation and its laws that will come from its 47th president and be prepared to exercise their rights in defense of the country and the people, laws, institutions and values that have kept it strong.
It can’t be ignored that millions of Americans voted for a candidate even some of his closest supporters acknowledge to be deeply flawed — convinced that he was more likely to change and fix what they regarded as the nation’s urgent problems: high prices, an infusion of immigrants, a porous southern border and economic policies that have flowed unequally through society. Some cast their votes out of a profound dissatisfaction with the status quo, politics or the state of American institutions more broadly.
Whatever drove this decision among these voters, however, all Americans should now be wary of an incoming Trump administration that is likely to put a top priority on amassing unchecked power and punishing its perceived enemies, both of which Mr. Trump has repeatedly vowed to do. All Americans, regardless of their party or politics, should insist that the fundamental...
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They all read from the same script.
They never learn.
For crying out loud! How long are we going to have to put up with these idiots and their fainting couch?
The New York Times! I recall that just before the election it would run at least one an anti-Trump story on a daily basis. Too biased to be taken seriously.
Democracy dies with Democrats.
BS 24/7 from these national socialists!!!!
Bee Material....
So what is it? Democracy is going to kill democracy or we have to get rid of democracy in order to preserve it? What are we to do when the voters don’t vote the way our elitist overlords tell us to vote?
At least America made the choice this time.
Halloween and the election are over, but this guy still trying to scare people
Which is a call for the violence and anarchy that greeted Trump’s first presidency. Didn’t take them long.
Now, why do we keep posting NYT paywall articles? Are we supposed to keep paying these traitors?
Smh...just the same tired old stuff.
Their lying rhetoric almost got Trump killed.
Are they talking about FDR, or just Democrat presidents in general?
Really. Clinton anyone?
Their lying rhetoric got a Trump supported killed and two seriously wounded. They should be held responsible.
I’d subscribe to the print edition of the New York Times, but the delivery fees from OppositeWorld would cost too much.
“The founders of this country recognized the possibility that voters might someday elect an authoritarian leader and wrote safeguards into the Constitution...”
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Yes NYT! Safeguards that your beloved Democrat Party attempted to infringe upon when they began to request that social media curtail political speech in the name of “misinformation”. The reason that the Left is becoming increasingly hated is their inability to see their own dangerous hypocrisy.
Another pant load from NYT; what a surprise.
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