Looks like Trump copied El Salvador’s President.
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El Salvador’s president since 2019, Nayib Bukele, calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator” and an “instrument and an “instrument of god”. El Salvador has always had problems with corruption and gangs.
In 2021 he removed the Artorney General and judges and replaced them with loyalists who would loosen their checks and balance system and change their constitution so that he could run for office two in a row which was formally prohibited. Bukele tackled a main problem in El Salvador gang violence. In March 2022, he declared a state of emergency after a weekend of gang violence where 87 people were murdered. Bukele used this state of emergency to suspend certain liberties, such as due process and has engaged in mass arrests. Since then, over 70,000 suspected gang members have been arrested, sometimes for just looking suspicious or having tattoos. His actions have produced the most relentless crackdown in El Salvador’s history. Of course, this caught the attention of human rights groups who believe he is arbitrarily detaining many Salvadorians. Sound familiar?? Of course we don’t have that type of gang violence, it’s a much smaller scale and the majority of gangs are American. The projects in New York, Boston, LA, Chicago, and smaller cities in the South still have gang violence and are still responsible for many of the murders. |
Anonymous
| The authoritarian playbook goes back further than Bukele. |
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Wait, he wants to be like a Latino?
Whhhhaaaat?! |
Anonymous
This is how they all start. Most start are with significant support and popularity and everything is great until it isn’t. He got rid of the gangs in El Salvador which is great and it was popular. But what if he starts operating in ways that are unpopular, it’s going to be hard to get rid of him. |
Anonymous
True but I doubt Trump knows his history. I’m wondering whose idea it was to build this mega jail in El Salvador? Probably Bukele. He had legitimate gang problems He probably proposed a plan for the US. Build a jail in our country and we’ll take your prisoners. Pay us millions and that will pay for your prisoners and our own. We win. |
Anonymous
Bukele has said on the record that he knows that he has imprisoned some innocent people, but that was unfortunate to curb the violence. |
Anonymous
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-homicides-gangs-bukele-69384a8705267eaddd18dcd28a53465b# El Salvador had 114 homicides in 2024 and more than 5,000 in 2016. Of course you’re going to imprison some people who are innocent if you cut the murder rate that severely. Bukele has a 91 percent approval rating because that is a monumental feat. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/02/el-salvador-elections-bukele-bitcoin-crime-gang-policy/ I wish our leaders had the same laser focus on curbing homicides in our inner cities. So much needless death and suffering and no one cares or is scared to do anything because of the army of lawyers in this country. |
Anonymous
Well then I hope YOU are caught up in a sweep and imprisoned without due process since you seem perfectly willing to wish that upon other people. You are a fascist. Nothing to be proud of. |
Anonymous
So you would you be ok if your family or friends were innocent and thrown in prison. You MAGAs really lack basic intelligence. You would be livid if you were in this position and then your rights to due process were disregarded. Stop your nonsense and work on your empathy. |
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This is what Putin, Orban, Erdogan and netanyahu have done.
This is nothing new - wipe out the media, take over universities, decimate the rule of law and profit! |
Anonymous
| The judicial system was run by the gangs, so the entire Blackstone 'ratio' was thrown out the door. |
Anonymous
We don’t have the crime rates that people like Trump claim with their fear mongering. Murder rates are down in all of the major cities except two, Louisville Kentucky and Fort Worth Texas. Murders are up slightly in some smaller Southern cities. States with Higher Murder Rates: Mississippi: Consistently ranks among the highest in the nation. Louisiana: Also consistently has a high murder rate. Alabama: Another state with a high murder rate. New Mexico Tennessee States with Lower Murder Rates: Massachusetts: Has one of the lowest murder rates. New Jersey: Also has a relatively low murder rate. New York Rhode Island Hawaii As a country we first need to admit that the states with virtually no gun control have the highest murder rates and these are almost always red states. If we can’t get honest about that we won’t make much progress. The city murders numbers are largely contained in areas with American gangs and some international gangs. Drug wars and petty beefs between gangs competing for the drug sales. Americans will not allow our freedoms to be suspended and we cannot allow innocent people to end up in violent jails because a campaign promise was to deport millions of criminals. Honestly there aren’t that many. Obama deported more illegal immigrants than Trump can ever hope to deport and without the major production and drama. Trump’s need to be in the spotlight and to showboat constantly will be his downfall. One of many. |
Anonymous
It’s new to our country and every American should be alarmed. What’s scary is these are the dictators that Trump is in awe of. He wants to be a part of their gang. |
Anonymous
If you looked into it even a little, you would not wish our leaders would copy Bukele. It is not accidental that innocent people are imprisoned. The government has arrest quotas. When police are feeling the pressure of a deadline, they arrest the next guy who comes their way. I believe that the government gives itslelf two years to decide whether or not to press charges. Yes, he has cleaned up El Salvador, but at what cost?! Did he have to use these methods?! The ends do not justify the means, they never have and never will. Bukele's background is in marketing and advertising. He knows exactly what he is doing. Trump absolutely loves it. Anyone who admires Bukele is either ignorant (this can either be forgivable or unforgivable--if you are on DCUM it is utterly unforgivable) or un-American. |
Anonymous
Tell that to the 5,000 per year dead people’s families and the scores of rape victims that suffered before Bukele came into office. |