Donald Trump Is a Threat to Democracy, and Saying So Is Not Incitement

[Superbadbrutha]

Get a grip.......like that was the grand plan from Plymouth Rock.
So good came from bad then? Lot of things from our past were unacceptable, but we can't go back. Is getting even better or learn from our past and move forward as one?

That's easy for a white man to say.

 

[daveman]

That coming from a Trump Humper.

Nobody asked you.

 

[daveman]

Get a grip.......like that was the grand plan from Plymouth Rock.
So good came from bad then? Lot of things from our past were unacceptable, but we can't go back. Is getting even better or learn from our past and move forward as one?

Cain't profit offa Whitey like that, though.

 

[Cougarbear]

"Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. That was true before an assassination attempt was foiled at his golf course Sunday, and it remains true after. Political violence in general, and assassinating presidential candidates specifically, also poses risks to democracy.

There is no contradiction between these ideas whatsoever. Yet Trump’s supporters have responded to both attempts on his life by muddying the waters, exploiting the near-tragedies with cynical efforts to redefine critiques of Trump’s authoritarian inclinations as violent provocation.
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There is a more serious conceptual problem with the argument that denouncing Trump as a threat to democracy inspired violence: It ignores the truth or falsity of the matter. Taken at face value, the argument implies that we cannot say a presidential candidate threatens democracy even if he plainly does. A party could nominate a candidate who openly promises to end elections and imprison all his critics, and the opposing party would be prevented from describing this candidate as a threat to democracy for fear of inspiring assassination attempts...”

Donald Trump Is a Threat to Democracy, and Saying So Is Not Incitement

Opposing political violence does not mean ignoring authoritarianism.

nymag.com

Republicans need to stop lying that appropriate, factual, warranted criticism of Trump is somehow ‘inciting’ violence against Trump.

So, does lying help you feel better about yourself? In no way did Trump ever say he would end elections. On the contrary, he said if Democrats continue to cheat on elections as they did in 2020, that will eventually end the need for elections.

As far as inciting violence, when? He said on January 6th to peacefully and peaceably go and protest. There is nothing wrong with having his followers protest and election result. You terrible lying democrats did so after Trump won in 2016 and haven’t stopped. You have threatened his life and the life of Kavanaugh. Harris said recently that Trump must be eliminated. Others have called for his death. You sick lying Democrats. Stop lying.