Posted on 03/01/2016 12:59:47 PM PST by MarvinStinson
The Washington Post is begging primary voters to reconsider their support for Republican front-runner Donald Trump, and warned this week that the businessman's political ascendency is not unlike that of other famous dictators, including Adolf Hitler.
"You don't have to go back to history's most famous example, Adolf Hitler, to understand that authoritarian rulers can achieve power through the ballot box," the Post's editorial board said Tuesday, explaining how it considers the casino tycoon's bid for the White House a "threat to democracy."
"In the world today, it has become almost commonplace for elected leaders to lock the door behind them once they achieve power. Vladi¬mir Putin in Russia, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey — all found ways once in power to restrict opposition, muzzle the media and erode checks and Presidential candidates from both parties are battling Tuesday in primary events in more than 10 states.
Political pundits and commentators are predicting Trump will win big in Tuesday evening's GOP races against Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Ohio Gov. John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson for the available 595 delegates. That has the Post terrified.
"Mr. Trump gives ample reason to fear that he would not respect traditional limits on executive authority. He promotes actions that would be illegal, such as torture. He intimates that he would use government to attack those who displease him," it wrote.
"He promises diktats — impose a tariff, build a wall — as if Congress is nothing but an inconvenience. His vow to round up and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, while perhaps not requiring congressional action, would necessitate a kind of intrusive police power this country has never seen," they added.
Though the Post holds out hope that Trump will fail either in the GOP primary or the general election, they warn that his campaign itself marks a dangerous turn in American politics.
"Politics is never free of rough-and-tumble accusations, wild exaggerations and unrealistic promises. But when Mr. Trump cheers the assault on one protester at his rally and says of another, 'I'd like to punch him in the face,' that is something new and different," it wrote.
"It is out of the ordinary when a candidate recycles demonstrably false Internet rumors ... and stands by them even when they are disproved," the paper added. "That he has difficulty repudiating the most odious white terrorist group in U.S. history; that he feels no need to explain, debate or defend his pie-in-the-sky proposals; that he degrades and disparages women, Mexicans, Jews, Muslims, people with disabilities — these are challenges to the core functioning of any democracy."
There's nothing wrong with worrying about border security, they added, and there's certainly nothing wrong with worrying about national security and terrorism.
"But Mr. Trump is pandering to those fears, not offering solutions. In so doing, he is insulting voters with genuine concerns. We continue to believe that Americans deserve better than that — and are better than that," it added.
You are correct.
The media is our next target.
GFY Washington Post!
Washington Post really over-achieving on the over-reach today.
A sex scandal. It always is. Just watch.
“...authoritarian rulers can achieve power through the ballot box,...”
Wow, Washington Post, I bet you’re damn glad we have the 2nd amendment in America...
That was a quote from the Washington Post article,dirtboy.
Wow, that may be the most ironic and sad fact I have ever heard.
There you go, bringing up historical facts. :)
The Washington Post is not one of my sources for advice.
“Is he a Nazi?”
“No, Donny, he’s a patriot. There’s nothing to be afraid of.”
You provided it as a rebuke to my comment. Quit trying to walk away from it now.
Learn what quotation marks mean, dirtboy,
Your lack of comprehension is YOUR problem.
Hitler was NOT elected.
Evil knows absolutely no bounds.
Did they mention that Hitler was a social democrat??
The 0bamanite National Socialist Democratic Party” members would have voted for him..
I’ll go along with the fact Trump is insulting. The following link is not current, but still, why would he leave it on Twitter?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/516382177798680576?lang=en
GOOD CATCH!!
I was about to say the same thing. Hitler was NOT elected. He was appointed by Von Papen/Hindenberg (with support from a few other fools) who thought they could control him like a puppet. By underestimating the evil political genius that was Hitler, they made one of the biggest mistakes in history.
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