It's getting tedious to see the hysterics that many go into about the destruction of democracy whenever whatever their emotional and ideological preference is doesn't happen as they want.
It's getting tedious to see the hysterics that many go into about the destruction of democracy whenever whatever their emotional and ideological preference is doesn't happen as they want.
And he's extremely charismatic and popular.
It's not a great look.
There was an attempt:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito...
Sadly the (alleged) instigator seems to not be held to account:
* https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Sm...
There have also been more subtle machinations:
Like he said, "It's getting tedious to see the hysterics."
Why didn't Trump seize power during multiple key opportunities in his term (soon after inauguration when his supporters and his rhetoric were at their most right-wing and Republicans held everything, or during the pandemic)? Why is Trump such a fan of Israel and their American counterparts?
I think uncle H would not approve of your comparison.
But at some point, the bell has to stop, right?
Let's say for the sake of example that the President of the US decides that a certain ethnic and/or religious group needs to be sent to guarded camps to be imprisoned.
Someone might say, rightly, "Hey, Hitler did this! Maybe we should think twice!"
Ding! Your argument is dismissed! ...Or does the comment actually get acknowledged? I'm curious to find where we'll put that line as a country.
Also, Trump has actually been elected, in a fairly functional, generally working as designed process that did what it was made to do. Whether you like him or not, his winning this election was exactly the opposite of democracy being broken.
It was an affirmation of the process, in which a maverick, newcomer politician was able to win once despite disdain not only from virtually all of the opposition and much of the media but also even from those within the very party he represented, and then later secure a second victory in which he reshaped the political landscape around him and the party that had formerly only grudgingly accepted him. I can't at all see how that's an example of supposed democratic process failure.
(He’a also a felon and a rapist, but I suppose those qualities can be weighed separately from the treason and sedition.)