An excerpt from the excellent book, "How Democracies Die"

[berg80]

Trump is for you

You have to be extraordinarily gullible, with all the evidence available to the public, to believe trump is for anyone but himself.

 

[berg80]

Milley admitted he would commit treason. He should be executed.

That's just a ridiculous, demonstrable lie. Do you recall the day when you first became detached from reality?

 

[berg80]

From the book. "The second category in our litmus test is the denial of the legitimacy of one's opponents. Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

A top Justice Department official on Friday ordered the firing of at least eight senior FBI executives and a sweeping examination of the work of thousands of other bureau employees, including all those who worked on investigations tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/31/fbi-considering-mass-purge-agents-involved-trump-investigations/

 

[jknowgood]

That's just a ridiculous, demonstrable lie. Do you recall the day when you first became detached from reality?

He said he told China if Trump was going to attack. He would warn them, that is treason.

 

[Nostra]

It didn't. I said in October if Trump wins, now I know how Hitler did it. I used to wonder what the fuck was wrong with the German people in 1939 to like that obviously evil prick. Well now look at America. We have an evil prick as our President.

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So you learned nothing from your major ass kicking.

 

[sealybobo]

So you learned nothing from your major ass kicking.

I'm sure Nazi's in Germany 1943 said the same thing to liberal Germans.

 

[berg80]

If you don't have one get a copy of "How Democracies Die." It lays out 4 indicators of authoritarian behavior. Notes in italics are mine.

1. Rejection of (or weak commitment to) democratic rules of the game. Refusing to accept election results.
2. Denial of legitimacy of political opponents. Crooked Hillary, Obama birtherism.
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence. Pardon of J6 mob, encouraged violence at rallies.
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties of opponents, including media. Threats to shut down critical media outlets.

At times it seems like he read the book and is following the blueprint. Then again, he doesn't read. Maybe someone presented it to him in cartoon form.

 

[talksalot]

Point taken. trump will remain out of control unless or until rank and file Repubs acknowledge what he is engaging in, satisfying his lust for retribution, is not productive for the country. And then do something about it.

It has to be Repubs as clearly he doesn't give a shit what half the country thinks.

Retribution? For what?
The Democrat President using his Department of Justice to wage ridiculous lawfare on his political rival for the office of POTUS?

It's not retribution, it's CONSEQUENCES.

Democrats' third-world lawfare cannot be allowed to happen again.

YOU KNOW DEMOCRAT'S LAWFARE WAS WRONG and so do American voters.

THAT'S WHY TRUMP WON!

 

[berg80]

Another excerpt........

"The US Constitution is by all accounts a brilliant document. But the original document, only 4 pages long, can be interpreted in many, and even contradictory, ways. We have, for example, few safeguards against filling nominally independent agencies (such as the FBI) with loyalists. According to constitutional scholars Aziz HuQ and Tom Ginsberg, only the "thin tissue of convention" prevents American presidents from capturing the referees and deploying them against opponents. Likewise, the Constitution is virtually silent on the president's authority to act unilaterally, via decrees or executive orders, and it does not define the limits of executive power during crises. Thus, Huq and Ginsberg recently warned that, "the constitutional and legal safeguards of (American) democracy............would prove to be easy to manipulate in the face of a truly antidemocratic leader."

The book has many prescient parts foretelling what trump 2.0 would look like.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Another excerpt........

"The US Constitution is by all accounts a brilliant document. But the original document, only 4 pages long, can be interpreted in many, and even contradictory, ways. We have, for example, few safeguards against filling nominally independent agencies (such as the FBI) with loyalists. According to constitutional scholars Aziz HuQ and Tom Ginsberg, only the "thin tissue of convention" prevents American presidents from capturing the referees and deploying them against opponents. Likewise, the Constitution is virtually silent on the president's authority to act unilaterally, via decrees or executive orders, and it does not define the limits of executive power during crises. Thus, Huq and Ginsberg recently warned that, "the constitutional and legal safeguards of (American) democracy............would prove to be easy to manipulate in the face of a truly antidemocratic leader."

The book has many prescient parts foretelling what trump 2.0 would look like.

Spinning
Whirling
Still Descending

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

A word to trump supporters. I know you know this is wrong.

Even if they know they don't care.

They'll continue to defend Trump's fascist thuggery.