Trump Authoritarianism Debate

Trump is a great President, with a track record of being true to his word in the matters of policy, that was another big reason to vote for him.But dems are trying to shove their agenda down people throats. If you don't stand up against lies, bullying and manipulation how different are you from people who conceded to Nazi thugs in Germany when they were grabbing political power through blatant propaganda and violence.

In this thread so far: "but, but, Obama!"Yes, if you actually read the article it's extremely critical of his policies with drones & surveillance.That doesn't mean Trump is somehow the same.We're dealing with a President-elect who has said he knows better than Generals & intelligence agencies. A man whose lack of temperament for the role has been apparent his entire life, a man who uses threats and intimidation along with poor self control, a man

President Trump is neither Biden nor Harris, and is nothing resembling a "free speech" ideological purist. He is an extremely powerful and temperamental man, who is extremely quick to use his power against those who he perceives to be his enemies.

It doesn't matter what his _actual_ positions are. Trump represents a total F-U to American politics. This is what his people WANT.He can say anything he wants and get away with it (... and he literally has).There is some precedent here. Berlusconi in Italy was a similar character (another a-hole media billionaire) who ended up making Italian politics a laughing-stock by grossly mismanaging the running of government. Like Trump, he appealed to fake old-timey values, people were willin

Not sure why this is getting downvoted, this indeed seems to be the case. https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2020/nov/03/obama-c...

This isn’t an aberration, it’s a continuation. Trump has repeatedly done things that would have been disqualifying for any normal president: threatening allies, undermining institutions, abusing power, normalizing coercion. The reason this moment feels different to some people isn’t that the behavior changed, it’s that they’re finally among those bearing the downside. That normalization, enabled by years of “it doesn’t affect me” neutrality, is part of how we got here.

You know, I haven't drank the "kek" koolaid and given Mr. Trump's historic cozy relations with the mob (Roy Cohn, Casinos), his strange manner of draining swamps by filling it with the worst sort of toxic sludge from Wall Street, and his irrational and excessive love for Israel ("they will [never] pay for it"), am not willing to suspend disbelief regarding his being yet another distraction for the citizenry of this nation by the moneyed class, but you start off with

Because the US doesn’t actually operate like that; it was just Trump being stupid and evil. Now that we have a president who’s not a vindictive moron, we’re functioning properly.

It seems like this post is implying that Trump is on his way to becoming a tyrant, but for all of his faults and bad manners I have a hard time viewing him as more than a temporary setback or perhaps even a wake-up call for the establishment. Why do some folks apparently perceive him to be a threat to our democracy or otherwise speak about him in such dramatic terms?

It has to be Bezos not a small time account.It has to be him and has to be unapologetic, like Trump was.People like to make fun of Trump but he delivered a masterpiece. He got to be POTUS for 4 years and the 73M people he convinced to be part of his movement grant him total immunity against past and future actions (including crimes).His only mistake was to be banned from social media, otherwise he could be a shadow "monday morning" President right now, undermining everything B