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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d'tat
It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup dÉtat - The New RepublicThe article concluded with, "Thats how fascism descends. And its becoming less and less hypothetical by the week."
But there's plenty to unpack, and excerpts won't do it justice. Best read it for yourselves.
meanwhile:
In Trump's Fascist America: Death Cards
The Disturbing History of ICEs Death Cards - The Nation The Vietnam-era practice is yet another example of ICE agents thrilling to the brutality they have been encouraged to cultivate.
bucolic_frolic
(54,797 posts)on other subjects than just elections.
Furthermore, the populace won't stand for it. A stolen election would have repercussions that cannot be estimatated.
MarineCombatEngineer
(17,970 posts)look like a normal picnic and I doubt that even the SCoTUS would go along with Trumpedo.
B.See
(8,219 posts)stood for plenty. Wish I had your faith in 'the populace.'
haele
(15,305 posts)The Heritage Foundation, the Religious Reicht, and the Tech Bro-ocracy are aligned with MAGA.
If you look at how the religious Iranian regime is able to keep cracking down on their educated classes, it's because they've cynically played two types within their populations - the undereducated rural communities who grew up depending on their mullahs to run their communities - keeping the peace between rural family groups that historically set themselves up along a patriarchal/tribal structure, and authoritarian drone types who are co-dependant on a hierarchy to order their lives for them (you know - the types that join police forces because they're not independent enough to do anything else that requires initiative, but still desire respect for their work...).
And then, there's those wealthy "big fish in little ponds" who cynically profit by preying on the less fortunate or gullible.
Representative governments such as Democracy, even if not totally practiced in equality is anathema to those types of populations.
B.See
(8,219 posts)the 'Supreme' Court, and he's squatting in the Oval Office...
with plans on staying.
in2herbs
(4,371 posts)not be accomplishing anything if it were not for the oldigarchs. They are the ones ordering F45 around.
B.See
(8,219 posts)'guns don't kill people' argument. As if he doesn't really want to do or say these things. They're making him.
Besides, does it really make any difference if he's merely the instrument by which they end democracy?
dweller
(28,137 posts)2naSalit
(101,874 posts)And you can see that they will need to be dealt with sooner than later.
thought crime
(1,455 posts)B.See
(8,219 posts)Read: The Emergency Executive Order Proposal That Trump Activists are Rallying Behind - TPM
Trumps Effort to Steal the Midterms Is Getting Serious - Yahoo
Alarming analysis details just how Trumps midterms coup could go down - Alternet.org
5 things to know as Trump's 'national emergency' plan emerges to seize control of voting - Raw Story
1. Voting machines will be banned even those that print a paper ballot.
2. Ballot drop boxes for mail-in voters will be prohibited.
3. Voters will be required to notarize mail-in ballots before turning them in.
4. Everyone currently registered to vote will have to register again for the 2026 elections.
5. The executive order claims to supersede virtually every major federal law on voting rights.
Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want Trump to Take Over the Midterms - TPM
Youre denied access to your property: Inside Trump's new plan to steal the midterms - Alternet.org
Trump says he's 'entitled' to illegal third term as allies work to back effort - Raw Story
Hang on tight: Ex-insider says 'terrified' GOP poised to take much more dangerous path - Raw Story