Why can’t people see that Trump wants to be an authoritarian?

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Anonymous wrote:Slowly taking over media that doesn’t praise him, total control of DOJ, scapegoating nonwhites and promoting Christian nationalism, monuments to himself, building a propaganda machine, lying to citizens that economy is A+++ etc etc. When will people open their eyes and see that this narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, demented pedo “emperor” has no clothes and he DOES NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE BUT HIMSELF?

NP. I think they see it. But they found life under Biden intolerable for whatever reason, and they welcomed this. I don’t understand it, but I also think one of the major issues in politics right now is the inability of people to not understand their political opponents. I don’t need to understand it.

We voted for Trump because Biden-Harris caused prices to skyrocket and opened the border to massive illegal immigration. If you look at election results around the world, the two things voters in all countries see to dislike the most are inflation and out-of-control immigration. The Democrats brought both things to this country, and they were shocked when they lost. That tells you how out of touch they are. They live in an ideological bubble. All they did was tell me how bad Trump was, while all I could see was how bad they were and how they were failing to address voters concerns.

Prices skyrocketed because of COVID and Trump's disasterous handling of the supply chains and economy. How do we know this? Inflation was bad EvERYWHERE post covid, but the US under Biden navigated it the best and created an economy that was "the envy of the world'

the "massive" immigration is another right wing hoax. How do we know? If there were soooooo many illegal immigrants in the country, then ICE wouldn't be spending its time rolling up legal greencard holders and actual US citizens.

People believing lies does not excuse the coming authoritarianism.

I mean this kindly but there was an immigration problem - a number of Dem governors sent multiple pleading letters to the Biden admin asking for help handling the processing of immigrants (regardless of legal status) being shipped in from TX and FL). This was real (I worked at an emergency shelter in MA while this was going on). Biden ignored the issue when he should have pushed for immigration reform. If he had done this when the letters were first sent (rather than wait until the end of his Presidency when Trump killed the legislation) it would have passed and he would have taken the talking point from Trump. Our country needs immigrants - and the vast majority are here legally - but we do have a problem with support for processing and settlement and real immigration reform is needed.

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Anonymous wrote:I think people admire that Trump is making change when we’ve have past Dem Presidents telling us we can’t have x, y, z thing (ie lower healthcare costs, bodily freedom of choice, lower cost of higher ed) bc of a, b, c reason (ie that changes the status quo, the GOP would
Never let us, etc etc).

Now, Trump’s choice of X, Y, Z thing to focus on are pretty much all terrible changes. But they are dramatic changes nonetheless.

I am so hoping for a new crop of Dems to emerge willing to use his authoritarian style to do good in this world instead of Trump’s endless self-enrichment and grandiose gestures.

Heck, I'll settle for a new crop of Dems who are less focused on pandering to extreme views and take more moderate approaches like Clinton and Obama did.

I’ll settle for anyone with a pulse who is not mentally ill, in cognitive and physical decline, and can locate a few countries on a map.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think people admire that Trump is making change when we’ve have past Dem Presidents telling us we can’t have x, y, z thing (ie lower healthcare costs, bodily freedom of choice, lower cost of higher ed) bc of a, b, c reason (ie that changes the status quo, the GOP would
Never let us, etc etc).

Now, Trump’s choice of X, Y, Z thing to focus on are pretty much all terrible changes. But they are dramatic changes nonetheless.

I am so hoping for a new crop of Dems to emerge willing to use his authoritarian style to do good in this world instead of Trump’s endless self-enrichment and grandiose gestures.

Heck, I'll settle for a new crop of Dems who are less focused on pandering to extreme views and take more moderate approaches like Clinton and Obama did.

But there are huge structural changes that are needed to address our problems with housing, healthcare, bodily rights. I don’t think a moderate is up to the job of addressing these. In fact, Clinton and Obama “moderate” policies are part of what has gotten us here. Reagan did a lot of undermining of our social systems that we have never recovered from (and that Clinton and Obama continued). We’ve now tried out “trickle down” and private health insurance reform and they haven’t worked. We need change. (Just not Trump change).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"I have a pen and a phone." - Barack Obama

Yes, a pen to sign bills, sent to him by Congress. You remember those, don’t you?

Did you think we would forget history???

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Doom and gloom!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people admire that Trump is making change when we’ve have past Dem Presidents telling us we can’t have x, y, z thing (ie lower healthcare costs, bodily freedom of choice, lower cost of higher ed) bc of a, b, c reason (ie that changes the status quo, the GOP would
Never let us, etc etc).

Now, Trump’s choice of X, Y, Z thing to focus on are pretty much all terrible changes. But they are dramatic changes nonetheless.

I am so hoping for a new crop of Dems to emerge willing to use his authoritarian style to do good in this world instead of Trump’s endless self-enrichment and grandiose gestures.

Heck, I'll settle for a new crop of Dems who are less focused on pandering to extreme views and take more moderate approaches like Clinton and Obama did.

But there are huge structural changes that are needed to address our problems with housing, healthcare, bodily rights. I don’t think a moderate is up to the job of addressing these. In fact, Clinton and Obama “moderate” policies are part of what has gotten us here. Reagan did a lot of undermining of our social systems that we have never recovered from (and that Clinton and Obama continued). We’ve now tried out “trickle down” and private health insurance reform and they haven’t worked. We need change. (Just not Trump change).

We can want and need this all we like. But when the current Dems are not popular enough to win over folks away from Trump, we are stuck. Again, no one is disputing facts here—it’s just that they aren’t relevant. People whose votes they need to win do not feel heard by the Dems. Until we can stop talking about how right we are and how wrong they are, it’s going to get worse. That’s what I can’t understand about Dems right now. Trump is not an accident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people admire that Trump is making change when we’ve have past Dem Presidents telling us we can’t have x, y, z thing (ie lower healthcare costs, bodily freedom of choice, lower cost of higher ed) bc of a, b, c reason (ie that changes the status quo, the GOP would
Never let us, etc etc).

Now, Trump’s choice of X, Y, Z thing to focus on are pretty much all terrible changes. But they are dramatic changes nonetheless.

I am so hoping for a new crop of Dems to emerge willing to use his authoritarian style to do good in this world instead of Trump’s endless self-enrichment and grandiose gestures.

Heck, I'll settle for a new crop of Dems who are less focused on pandering to extreme views and take more moderate approaches like Clinton and Obama did.

But there are huge structural changes that are needed to address our problems with housing, healthcare, bodily rights.

If by “bodily rights” you mean abortion, that’s one thing. If you’re talking about transgender issues, particularly as it relates to kids, that’s an issue where the Democrats lost a lot of support. This is something the next Democratic candidate needs to navigate very carefully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I have a pen and a phone." - Barack Obama

Yes, a pen to sign bills, sent to him by Congress. You remember those, don’t you?

Did you think we would forget history???

Here are the facts.

Complete Executive Orders by calendar year (since 2001):

- 2001 (George W. Bush): 54
- 2002 (George W. Bush): 36
- 2003 (George W. Bush): 37
- 2004 (George W. Bush): 38
- 2005 (George W. Bush): 35
- 2006 (George W. Bush): 35
- 2007 (George W. Bush): 36
- 2008 (George W. Bush): 35
- 2009 (Barack Obama): 40
- 2010 (Barack Obama): 35
- 2011 (Barack Obama): 34
- 2012 (Barack Obama): 36
- 2013 (Barack Obama): 33
- 2014 (Barack Obama): 36
- 2015 (Barack Obama): 35
- 2016 (Barack Obama): 42
- 2017 (Barack Obama: 7; Donald Trump: 55)
- 2018 (Donald Trump): 51
- 2019 (Donald Trump): 48
- 2020 (Donald Trump): 66
- 2021 (Donald Trump: 14; Joe Biden: 77)
- 2022 (Joe Biden): 29
- 2023 (Joe Biden): 24
- 2024 (Joe Biden): 19
- 2025 (Jan 1–Jan 19) (Joe Biden): 13
- 2025 (Jan 20–Dec 27) (Donald Trump): 225

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He does also care about Ivanka.

Care is a strong word..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people admire that Trump is making change when we’ve have past Dem Presidents telling us we can’t have x, y, z thing (ie lower healthcare costs, bodily freedom of choice, lower cost of higher ed) bc of a, b, c reason (ie that changes the status quo, the GOP would
Never let us, etc etc).

Now, Trump’s choice of X, Y, Z thing to focus on are pretty much all terrible changes. But they are dramatic changes nonetheless.

I am so hoping for a new crop of Dems to emerge willing to use his authoritarian style to do good in this world instead of Trump’s endless self-enrichment and grandiose gestures.

Heck, I'll settle for a new crop of Dems who are less focused on pandering to extreme views and take more moderate approaches like Clinton and Obama did.

I’ll settle for anyone with a pulse who is not mentally ill, in cognitive and physical decline, and can locate a few countries on a map.

Rocks are smarter than the current administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slowly taking over media that doesn’t praise him, total control of DOJ, scapegoating nonwhites and promoting Christian nationalism, monuments to himself, building a propaganda machine, lying to citizens that economy is A+++ etc etc. When will people open their eyes and see that this narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, demented pedo “emperor” has no clothes and he DOES NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE BUT HIMSELF?

Because they are "owning" the libs. I can't wait till his dictatorship starts treading on the MAGAs. Oh the crying and tantrums that will occur.

[Anonymous]

Trump will cancel the midterms entirely. No one gets to vote at all.

Kings don’t allow elections!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump will cancel the midterms entirely. No one gets to vote at all.

Kings don’t allow elections!

Lame attempt at trolling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of it is because of unchecked immigration. I think that makes a lot of Americans angry and sad. And because Congress does not have the political will to fix it they need a moderately authoritarian leader to do so. It all stinks but to me the finger points right back to Congress for not doing their jobs properly.

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He does also care about Ivanka.

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