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Opinion | A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.
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No ....no it's not it just isn't. What this is a sensationalist headline trying to sow discord, despair, and defeat.
I understand the implication of a future where Trump or his like were in charge, but as dark as it looks I still think the majority of our country has better sense than to elect him president again. So what if he makes the Republican nomination it just confirms their lawless criminality.
In other words STOP with the crap attitudes that trump is "Inevitable" Shit... he's not.
I'm not sure enough people with enough sense are actually voting...
Would reminding them that Trump is a major reason abortion rights are on the backslide in the US help? Or that Republicans are running around banning (or trying to ban) books from libraries? Or that Republicans are largely refusing to allocate taxpayers' money to help taxpayers?
Aparently not?
There's plenty of logical reasons to deny him another term, but none of it seems to matter.
No. Lots of voters actually want that. 80 million people or such.
I think that would work... Look at the recent democratic wins: it was mostly elections where abortion rights were on the ballot.
How are Republicans refusing to help taxpayers?
Here's a recent article from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities detailing how they're refusing to help in the form of the most recent House appropriations bill.
It boils down to the fact that the Republican party's position as being fiscally conservative typically entails reducing government spending by cutting funding to and thereby underfunding domestic programs that help taxpayers/citizens.
Only everything they do.
It doesn’t fucking matter who we elect if we don’t hold them accountable with general strikes.
The majority of country didn't elect him the first time and definitely isn't necessary to elect a president.
The presidency is decided by electoral college votes, not by the people's vote.
This is true. But calling the worst case scenario "inevitable" is doom and gloom surrender before the fight - stuff like this will just make people think "well, it's hopeless, there's nothing I can do" and so they do nothing when maybe they could have done something.
The majority of the country elected Clinton in 2016. American politics has always been structured in a way to appease the assholes by putting a heavy thumb on the scales to make them more powerful than they should be.
This opinion contradicts the polls though right?
I mean it's a shitty headline and I dislike the use of the term "inevitable", but polls suggest that voters are eager for a Trump dictatorship.
Polls show them as neck and neck, not to mention that 2023 elections show up pretty bad for MAGA.
He won in 2016 with a minority of votes. Neck and neck is not reassuring.
polls suggest a hardcore portion of Americans want fascism and what biden sucks so hard he might still lose despite that being his competition.
the only truth to the headline is the increasingly part - and it's because of articles like this.
More people didn't vote than voted for either of the candidates.
Fix that problem and assholes like Trump won't be a concern
How can you call it sensationalist when you know that the consequences of Trump being elected that are listed in the article are highly likely to be true?
I don't consider it sensationalist. I consider it to be a strong warning. If you read the article through to the end; you'll note the tone changes and explains why this has happened. Is it potentially sounding the alarm too soon? Personally, I do not think so. It might be the intention of the author to scare someone of enough power into action extraordinary enough to Stop Trump.
Or maybe it will scare an everyday reader into leaving the country to escape the growing fascism, or into actually turning up at the polls and voting for anything but the Orange Tyrant.
Emphasis added - I will try to avoid highlighting who is responsible for the failures but they are listed in the article. I am not sympathizing with Trump Supporters; I am pointing at how this article outlines how we got here today.
TL;DR: The odds are higher because the listed barriers have been cleared.
TL;DR: There were many people in power who could have stopped him, but did not, as they felt certain that "Surely the next obstacle will stop him. The next obstacle did not stop him
TL;DR: The Psychology is briefly explained; and it highlights how extraordinary that taking action would have been for the person(s) in question.
TL;DR: More Psychology is explained briefly and it highlights that the price to stop Trump has been rising exponentially with each step.
Why? You think the polls are completely lying? It's very dangerous to be this complacent when the data directly contradicts you.
Yeah there are still many who don't vote. If some of those get swayed by this and actually vote, there could still be a chance.
Who's to say they will vote the way you want them to?
Trump pardoned murderers.
I hope you're right.
However I also never imagined my country (Holland) the PVV extreme-right would become the biggest party by far. People really have gone mad. Even some of my friends are now so hostile against immigrants and transsexuality in particular, I just don't know where it comes from. I guess they doomscroll too much in the wrong places and edge each other on or something.