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Donald Trump vows to lock up political enemies if he returns to White House
(www.theguardian.com)
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Has nobody on the internet ever read a history book? Who cares what Congress thinks when you have an autocrat jailing his political opponents? It's not relevant anymore.
This. Far too many sympathetic fascist-curious, fascist-adjacent, and outright fascists in the Republican Party (and the police, and the army and the FBI, etc...) that DGAF about institutional norms.
We still have not even gotten to the bottom of their coup attempt - just WHY did they issue stand-down orders for J6? What was Flynn's involvement, as well as his BROTHER'S involvement?
These people thought they were going to get away with it. We already nearly lost our country - these assholes are likely to make sure they don't fail next time.
In order for Donald Trump to become an autocrat, he'd have to dissolve 2 of the 3 branches of government. In order to dissolve the branches of government, he'd need one of the branches of government that he doesn't control to agree to be dissolved. Then the SCOTUS would have to rule on the constitutionality of Congress being eliminated, which, if they're acting ethically (har har) they would immediately halt. He can sign executive orders, but the more EOs a president signs, the more they create tension within the voting population, potentially leading to unrest and if left unchecked, worse.
All of that shit goes out the window when you have an army of racist cops, and potentially the actual US military backing you. I'd like to think they'd shut it down real quick, but enlisted men are overwhelmingly conservative (and Trump supporters) if I recall. There are militias who have been "training" (most of them are probably a joke, but let's not forget what the Bundys did with just a few guys) for decades for a moment like this.
This is what I meant when I mentioned reading history books. This is far from uncharted territory. This is how these things happen historically. We're watching it happen in realtime.
Civil war might be preferable to letting them take power peacefully because it won't stay peaceful. I have no doubt that they'll find people to run death camps if it comes to that, my question is how much will everyone else do to oppose them. If they start arresting journalists, then that's a sign that it's about to get very bad.
By then, it's too late.