The fear of a looming Trump dictatorship

Washington Post ^ | 12 04 2023 | Ishaan Tharoor

[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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[Sarah Barracuda]

Id rather have a dictator that keeps this country and the world SAFE than a brain dead child molesting diaper wearing buffoon who does the bidding of his puppet masters

[Nextrush]

This is what fentanyl does to writers of news stories...sarc

[Raycpa]

Are you a fed?

[x]

Former congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming is the poster child of a Republican establishment abandoned by the party’s far-right base.

I doubt it. Liz is too erratic. She threw away her party membership card and became toxic when she let Pelosi put her on the Jan 6th committee. Nobody's beating a path to Adam Kinzinger's house either. It's more like Nikki Haley became the establishment poster child, for better or for worse.

[Bratch]

Subtle Like a Brick Through a Window – CIA Outlet Approves Donald Trump Assassination

December 4, 2023 | Sundance | 445 Comments

I have stayed away from this subject for eight years; however, everyone in/around U.S. politics knows the Washington Post, owned by Big Tech Amazon, is effectively the PR firm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). No one inside the DC beltway does not understand this basic truth.

Therefore, when the husband of State Dept official Victoria Nuland, a man named Robert Kagan, writes an op-ed in the CIA newsletter, effectively calling for President Trump to receive the Julius Caesar treatment, the non-subtle message is for the CIA to repeat their Kennedy performance and kill President Trump.

As alarming as this acceptance might sound, there are no intellectually honest people who would deny it.

WaPo/CIA – Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. In 13 weeks, Donald Trump will have locked up the Republican nomination. In the RealClearPolitics poll average (for the period from Nov. 9 to 20), Trump leads his nearest competitor by 47 points and leads the rest of the field combined by 27 points. The idea that he is unelectable in the general election is nonsense — he is tied or ahead of President Biden in all the latest polls — stripping other Republican challengers of their own stated reasons for existence.

[…] Are we going to do anything about it? To shift metaphors, if we thought there was a 50 percent chance of an asteroid crashing into North America a year from now, would we be content to hope that it wouldn’t? Or would we be taking every conceivable measure to try to stop it, including many things that might not work but that, given the magnitude of the crisis, must be tried anyway?

Will those who balked at resisting Trump when the risk was merely political oblivion suddenly discover their courage when the cost might be the ruin of oneself and one’s family? (more)

[cotton1706]

The people who don’t like checks to power are fearful of a check to their power.

Golly gee. Shocked!

[Fester Chugabrew]

The left presumes the Executive Branch to be capable of actions it may not indulge. As such, they fear only their own dreams. That is not to say abuses have not occurred. Rule by Executive Order is a sign of Congressional weakness.

[Beowulf9]

Im mean, this is so bunk. When he was in office he did nothing of the sort but now all of a sudden he’s going to be a dictator.

The dictatorship is the left who keeps forcing laws and censuring free speech all over the place. THIS is who is the dictators.

[BatGuano]

Remember, this is an article from the Washington Post.
The newspaper and Liz Cheney are certifiably crazy.
I wish Dick Cheney had taken Liz on a hunting trip.
Both Daddy and daughter have proved that they are small potatoes.

Crawl back to Wyoming, fortunately they don’t recognize your stupidity!
You might last a few years, in the “limelight!”

Cheneys= BLECH!

[chief lee runamok]

"When is someone in the GOP going to go after Crazy Liz?

Given that ninety-nine percent of the Gomers Of Politics are spineless,
greedy pigs supping at the taxpayers trough, my best guess is: never.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

We already have a government that has taken upon itself to determine what kind of appliances we can use and cars we can drive and uses its pals in big tech to censor dissent and considers conservative Christians such as myself (and my 80-year-old aunt, and my 75-year-old former sixth grade teacher) to be a “threat to our democracy,” and threatens to cut off lunch funding to schools that don’t toe the LGBTQ line. What would Lizzy call that? She and her ilk are afraid of what might happen to them if Trump roars back into town to kick ass and take names. I hope he actually does it this time, so that the real establishment authoritarians never again get a good night’s sleep, or draw another peaceful breath.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’d be happy with sleepwalking. The tyrannical Dems have the pedal to the metal.

Visit the Capitol — go to prison.
Make a meme — go to prison.
Like a Trump tweet — go to prison.
Speak at a school board meeting — get an FBI SWAT team at your door.
Catholic? — another FBI SWAT team visit.

[Az Joe]

These people are certifiable...and dangerous to the Republic.

Trump has driven them over the edge, he really has, and I am sure he knew he was doing it all along and still.

[jonrick46]

Liz Cheny is nuts, Jim!

[jacknhoo]

She may be going to prison along with other coup accomplices.

[jdsteel]

“ They want riots in the streets or worse. They’ll burn the house down to get their way.”

Yep.

[Seaplaner]

My fear is not Trump's imperious behavior (it's there, just not my biggest fear.)

My fear is that Mister Trump has insulted sooooo very many good (not perfect) folks within the GOP, that he will lose the general election in landslide fashion.

[WinstonSmith1984]

The most evil people on earth are currently running the United States of America. We have been betrayed internally. Liz is on that team.

[No name given]

Indeed.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I’m sick of these pissants like Cheney.