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The fear of a looming Trump dictatorship
Washington Post ^ | 12 04 2023 | Ishaan Tharoor

Posted on 12/04/2023 4:26:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Former congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming is the poster child of a Republican establishment abandoned by the party’s far-right base. Now, she’s billboarding what may come next: In an interview with CBS aired Sunday, Cheney lamented the extent to which the Republican Party had been “co-opted” by Trumpism and said she feared the potential of a vengeful Trump presidency in 2025.

“One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States,” Cheney said.

Cheney’s refusal to accept former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him — and her decision to publicly rebuke Trump for his role in stoking the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — got her ostracized from the GOP and cost her the House seat. She has spent the months since campaigning against his potential reelection, to little avail. Trump is the heavy favorite to emerge as the Republican presidential nominee, no matter the slew of legal cases against him and even the prospect of imprisonment.

In her CBS interview, Cheney said a Trump victory could mark the end of the American republic. “He’s told us what he will do,” she said. “It’s very easy to see the steps that he will take.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Editorial; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cheney; chuckfeney; democracydiesinwapo; dictator; fakenews; ishaantharoor; lizardcheney; lizcheney; trump; washingtoncompost; whitewashinghamaspos
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To: yesthatjallen

“He’s told us what he will do,”

Really? Close the border? Drill for oil? Stop Iran? Stop China? End wars? OH, NO! NOT THE WARS!


101 posted on 12/04/2023 10:25:40 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The author of this article “graduated with honors in history and ethnicity, race and migration from Yale University.” Get the picture? The last Yale graduate to vote Republican was educated during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. The last Republican journalist to work at the Washington Post goes back to the nineteenth century.


102 posted on 12/05/2023 3:49:17 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: yesthatjallen

We already have an authoritarian government and it’s run by Democrats. The only good thing is that the Democrats are incompetent at running an authoritarian government. Trump believes in freedom, not authoritarianism.


103 posted on 12/05/2023 4:00:02 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: yesthatjallen
“One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States,” Cheney said.

She's absolutely correct. The cabal that's pulling Biden's strings is definitely leading Americans into a dictatorship, with Ol' Joe himself as the figurehead.

I'm sure that's what she's talking about ...

Oh, wait.

I waded through a couple more paragraphs of Wa-Po sewage ...

She's delusional.

104 posted on 12/05/2023 4:06:48 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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interview with CBS aired Sunday, Cheney lamented the extent to which the Republican Party had been “co-opted” by Trumpism and said she feared the potential of a vengeful Trump presidency in 2025.

“One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States,” Cheney said.

OK lizputzbrainedchainey

All of you demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminazipedophilegoatrapers have been twisting the FACTS 180° AS USUAL !!! Wherever you use the word: TRUMP/TRUMPISM it needs to be replaced with pedojoe and thezero !!! sleepwalking and dictatorship are wholly owned by you communists and Nazis. A vengeful pedojoe and thezero presidency in 2020


105 posted on 12/05/2023 4:21:31 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Author:Ishaan Tharoor

The real meme is that Trump will prevent Muslim dominance of America.

And so Ishaan touts Cheny’s treason , she fabricating a Jan 6th crisis. Cheny should be indicted and tried as a traitor and executed by military firing squad for causing innocent Americans to be jailed, and tortured by solitary confinement.


106 posted on 12/05/2023 4:43:02 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: yesthatjallen

Translation: We’re going to have to create a real dictatorship to prevent a dreamed up dictatorship


107 posted on 12/05/2023 5:18:52 AM PST by Pollard (Stick a fork in the USA, it's done!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Their desperation would be almost amusing if it weren’t so dangerous. They are throwing EVERYTHING at him. Each new thing raises him in the polls.


108 posted on 12/05/2023 5:20:01 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - WiersbeIIRC, )
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

“... when, Trump is re-elected he will leave office at the end of his second four year term.”

His next term should be at least six years long to make up for the years they stole from him during his first term.


109 posted on 12/05/2023 5:22:48 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - WiersbeIIRC, )
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To: yesthatjallen

What about the current Biden dictatorship. Following the stolen election


110 posted on 12/05/2023 5:33:43 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Bookshelf

Like I said, it’s projection. The left is always accusing others of doing what they are doing or are wanting to do.


111 posted on 12/05/2023 6:47:24 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: yesthatjallen

Liz Cheney having skull pains again needs to get it fixed her brain stopped working.


112 posted on 12/05/2023 8:16:31 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: yesthatjallen

Liz needs to be taken away in a straight jacket, severe delusional TDS. Seriously, there is not one thing Trump has ever done that could be considered the act of a “dictator”. Biden is quite another story. It wasn’t Trump who forced and threatened people to get the Fauci shot.


113 posted on 12/05/2023 8:19:57 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: ridesthemiles

She is, she has a severe case of Trump derangement syndrome.


114 posted on 12/05/2023 8:21:06 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: yesthatjallen

WaPo = Bull Merde.


115 posted on 12/05/2023 9:11:16 AM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: yesthatjallen
To them, a Trump dictatorship is him simply making them do what they should have been doing all along.

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

116 posted on 12/05/2023 10:50:34 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: yesthatjallen

If Biden can’t beat Trump, then he will run against Hitler. He just needs a full court press by the media and never-Trumpers to convince voters that Trump is a fascist, genocidal, white supremacist dictator.


117 posted on 12/05/2023 12:36:33 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: yesthatjallen

Pure projection of their own agenda.


118 posted on 12/05/2023 12:45:43 PM PST by dragonblustar (You best start believing in Bible prophecies, you’re in one.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Three questions for President Trump:

1) Why did you fire Mike Flynn?
2) Why did you not order Rod Rosenstein to fire Robert Mueller and when he refused, why did you not fire him?
3) When General Milley called a press conference to say he was sorry for walking with you to St. John’s Church while fires in DC were still burning, why did you not remove him and order him court-martialed for insubordination?


119 posted on 12/05/2023 12:54:55 PM PST by Jim Noble (The future belongs to those who show up)
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To: yesthatjallen

Anyone afraid of that is a clueless moron.

There are a lot of people with good reason to fear his re-election, but not because he’s a dictator - it’s because they committed treason and he is gong to bring them to justice.


120 posted on 12/05/2023 1:53:12 PM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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