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Posted on 09/28/2025 8:24:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In 2007, eight years after becoming Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez revoked the license of the country’s oldest private television station. Eight months into his second term, President Donald Trump suggested revoking the licenses of U.S. television stations he believes are overly critical of him.
Since he returned to office in January, Trump’s remaking of the federal government into an instrument of his personal will has drawn comparisons to elected strongmen in other countries who used the levers of government to consolidate power, punish their enemies and stifle dissent.
But those familiar with other countries where that has happened, including Hungary and Turkey, say there is one striking difference: Trump appears to be moving more rapidly, and more overtly, than others did.
“The only difference is the speed with which it is happening,” said David Smilde, who lived in Venezuela during Chavez’s rise and is now a professor at Tulane University.
Trump has both scoffed and winked at the allegation that he’s an authoritarian.
During last year’s campaign, he said he wouldn’t be a “dictator” — except, he added, “on day one” over the border. Last month, Trump told reporters: ”A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we like a dictator.’ I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator.”
Even so, he has moved quickly to consolidate authority under the presidency, steer federal law enforcement to prioritize a campaign of retribution and purge the government of those not considered sufficiently loyal.
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Of course socialism never creates authoritarian hell holes. Just rule of law and Constitutional freedoms.
Ah...APEEEE
Ah...APEEEE
Ah...APEEEE
Never mind the use of state actors by Democrats in an attempt to destroy Trump. Apparently everything is in the interest of democracy if Democrats at like tyrants.
Never mind the use of state actors by Democrats in an attempt to destroy Trump. Apparently everything is in the interest of democracy if Democrats at like tyrants.
Never mind the use of state actors by Democrats in an attempt to destroy Trump. Apparently everything is in the interest of democracy if Democrats at like tyrants.
They are out to create a civil war in a attempt to destroy the nation. This has been their plan for years now and they are getting desperate...stock up.
Ok...I only hit post ONCE...something going on here
We are headed into an authoritarian government because half the population is deranged or communist, so there is no middle ground. We aren’t going back to the 80s. So my choice is a heavy handed government that doesn’t hate me or America…. or one that would shoot me in a ditch on the edge of town if they could get away with it.
Not fun, but there it is.
We are headed into an authoritarian government because half the population is deranged or communist, so there is no middle ground. We aren’t going back to the 80s. So my choice is a heavy handed government that doesn’t hate me or America…. or one that would shoot me in a ditch on the edge of town if they could get away with it.
Not fun, but there it is.
The Associated Press biased reporting draw comparisons to Pravda.
Vegetarianism draws comparison to Hitler. OP
Guess they shouldn’t have a) arrested him and b) tried to kill him
I stopped reading at “AP.”
GMAFB
Nothing screams ‘democracy’ more than a liberal government storming into a former president’s home and searching for suspected evidence, for the sole purpose of indicting him and prosecuting him to prevent him from seeking elected office ever again.
That’s democracy the democrat party’s way, and the AP’s way.
The democrat party needs to have the word, ‘democrat’ or ‘democratic’ stripped from its title.
Tally-Ho Mister President.
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