The Moment of Truth | The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.
The Moment of Truth | The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.
The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.
I'm not a conservative myself, but I defy any conservative intending to vote for Donald Trump to read this comparison of Washington and Trump, and to honestly tell themselves afterwards that that they believe in America and its ideals.
His American dream is to fuck everyone over who isn't himself. Not even family is safe if it benefits him. I can't understand how there are still people unable to see this.
I get that some ride in his wake and make a fortune for some time, but he drags everyone into the swamp eventually.
His American dream is to fuck everyone over who isn’t himself. Not even family is safe if it benefits him. I can’t understand how there are still people unable to see this.
I am genuinely interested in hearing from people who can explain this!
That's how cults work. Those on the inside are either unable or unwilling to see the reality of things. Those on the outside wonder how they cannot.
Many have isolated themselves (at Trump's direction) to a media ecosystem where they aren't being exposed to the truth about him. And when they are, he's trained them to believe that it's all lies. They are living in an entirely alternate reality crafted for them by Fox (and other rightwing outlets), Truth Social, and Trump and his congressional cronies.
I have family members who've been living in that world for years. Parroting the Fox talking points and praising Trump for what they portray him as. Like cults do, over time these things have become part of their identity...even their faith. It's not easy to do a 180 on that. To them, it would be unthinkable to ever vote for a Democrat because that would be counter to who they are as a person. It would also be unthinkable to them that a Democrat could ever even be worthy of voting for, given all the things they've been "taught" about the Democrats. To them, I'm the crazy one for suggesting things might be different from what they're hearing. They are trapped in a cult.
All that being said...the longer it goes, I think the scale is shifting from "they haven't been exposed to the truth" to "willful ignorance of the the truth". That really wears on my patience for them and I find myself thinking at times that there's no excuse anymore. But I also have to remind myself how difficult it is to extract someone from a cult. And I remember that I knew these people before Trump...and they are GOOD people with good hearts. But they've been fooled so very thoroughly by Trumpism and what it promised them.
I'm angrier at Fox, Newsmax, OAN, and all of the elected officials who've propped Trump up and peddled his brand than I am at his supporters who've been fooled by them. Without them, Trump is nothing. He could have been a laughing stock that we would have just moved on from if they hadn't championed him, lied about him and his opponents, sanitized his worst moments, etc.They truly have shaped their viewer's minds about Trump and about the Democrats. It's enraging.
Y'all need to accept at this point conservatives who support Trump do not give a shit. They don't care if they come across as hypocrites. They are not acting in good faith and there are literally no consequences for them. Your only weapon at this point is to vote and crush them so resoundingly in the polls that they realise they are not the new normal and the majority does not respect them.
Yeah, this is correct. Nazis intentionally un-bind themselves from things like decency, the spirit of cooperation, and the social contract so they can cheat better.
Amazingly, tons of non-nazis fall for it and keep acting like if they get huffy enough, the nazis will come off it, re-button their top button, and start playing nice.
Republicans are actively working to destroy America. Sober up and act accordingly.
Considering this was a religious white-sumpremcist slave owner when only white men were considered people, idk if he would be THAT mad with this new vision.
He had his flaws, no doubt, and being an enslaver was the biggest one. The article does cover this, however.
If he gets in its 4 years suck it up and move on. Then in 4years time campaign harder against him. Thats how democracy works.
He is promising a programme of economic recession, trade war, an end to the free press and ethnic cleansing. That's not how democracy works, it how it ends.
Exactly. The guard rails that kept Trump in check and protected democracy in his first term will not be there for his second. They are making sure of that.
If he gets in its 4 years suck it up and move on. Then in 4years time campaign harder against him. Thats how democracy works.
What a terrible take. This is either an incredibly uninformed opinion, or a Trump troll not arguing in good faith.
Last time trump was in i made lots of $$$ on my stocks. A trade war with china is kinda nessasary if u have seen their human rights record. There has been more government censorship with biden than there was with trump. Im not aware of the ethnic clensing trump has proposed (unless u mean leaving ukraine to die?) id like a source pls.
Democracy does not enforce ethics or morals in enforces the opinions of the majority. For example hamus is a democraticly ellected government and terrorist organisation they are simply enforcing the majority opinion of the Palestinian people. Israel has a democraticly elected government and are enforcing the majority opinion of the Israeli people. Both sides are responsible for human rights atrocities and sometimes thats just how democracy works.
It won't be if he wins and we all--including you--know it.
I dont think so. There is so much money from companies and countries across the globe that relies on a stable democracy to hold their money (hence the global reserve currency). America is simply to big to fail.
He wouldn't be able to run again if he won this time.
Unless he's gonna just ignore the laws and the supreme Court would just let him break laws because they said the president is above the law but that would be silly.