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Opinion Trump says the quiet part out loud: He'll destroy democracy
If TFG is re-elected, there will be no further federal elections
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/17/trump-2024-newsletter/
Four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump declared on Truth Social (on Veterans Day weekend, no less) that “the radical left thugs ... live like vermin within the confines of our country.” He repeated the invective during an appearance in New Hampshire. As Forbes pointed out, “The former president’s incendiary rhetoric invokes a term frequently used by Nazis to dehumanize Jews, including a 1939 quote attributed to Hitler: ‘This vermin must be destroyed. The Jews are our sworn enemies.’”
The Biden campaign responded forcefully to Trump’s fascist threats: “On a weekend when most Americans were honoring our nation’s heroes, Donald Trump parroted the autocratic language of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini — two dictators many U.S. veterans gave their lives fighting, to defeat exactly the kind of un-American ideas Trump now champions.” The campaign’s statement continued: “Trump doesn’t care about our troops or what they fought for — he thinks they’re ‘losers’ for making the ultimate sacrifice defending our country from forces opposed to democracy and its ideals.”
Trump’s vile outburst coincides with new and shocking reporting on the GOP front-runner’s plans for a second term. The New York Times reported that Trump “is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 — including preparing to round up undocumented people already in the United States on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.” Likewise, The Post reported on “specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.”,,,,,
The Post provided a much-needed accounting:
The Biden campaign responded forcefully to Trump’s fascist threats: “On a weekend when most Americans were honoring our nation’s heroes, Donald Trump parroted the autocratic language of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini — two dictators many U.S. veterans gave their lives fighting, to defeat exactly the kind of un-American ideas Trump now champions.” The campaign’s statement continued: “Trump doesn’t care about our troops or what they fought for — he thinks they’re ‘losers’ for making the ultimate sacrifice defending our country from forces opposed to democracy and its ideals.”
Trump’s vile outburst coincides with new and shocking reporting on the GOP front-runner’s plans for a second term. The New York Times reported that Trump “is planning an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration if he returns to power in 2025 — including preparing to round up undocumented people already in the United States on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.” Likewise, The Post reported on “specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.”,,,,,
The Post provided a much-needed accounting:
In recent speeches, Trump has incorrectly described Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as the leader of Turkey and falsely suggested Hungary shares a border with Russia. He has repeatedly referred to the Obama administration when he meant the Biden administration, and at one point he inaccurately suggested he’d beaten Obama — rather than Hillary Clinton — in the 2016 election.
Trump has also mispronounced “on purpose” as “on perfect” and “Marxist” as “markers,” and he has combined the names of Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum and Florida Republican Adam Putnam to get “Pullam.” At the end of one speech, he warned that the world must not slide into World War II.
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Do his deluded "supporters" understand just what they'd be in for?? 
