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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I’m genuinely curious. When he said this was what he would do, did you not believe him? [/quote]

OP here. Sort of. A lot of this is stuff that I knew he'd find appealing, but the guy says a lot of stuff that isn't true-- mexico paying for it and all that. Plus, for all his faults, I did think that he was sort of correct in his complaint that he was constantly stymied in his first term by entrenched power structures that hated him and thought he was a joke. Tbh, I still think that. [b]The fact that a huge share of the country called themselves the Resistance-- as though they were standing up to tanks in the streets of 1968 Prague-- was sort of absurd, and I thought it was revealing that so many members of our social elite were like "yeah, that's a reasonable thing to do."[/b]

This time though it seems different. It seems like he's able to do a lot more of the stuff he said he'd do. But he's also not doing some of the better stuff he said he would. So from my vantage point, a big vibe I got from his campaign was that he would be pragmatic and approach even some Dems to high-level positions (which he did, I guess) and avoid weapon using the justice system. The hardcore small-government shtick and the EOs though all seem like he's just out for blood. [/quote]

Perhaps you would like to consider that all of those people simply saw the writing on the wall and you did not.

From your posts, you seem to think you are a reasonable and intelligent person. Are you also capable of self-reflection?[/quote]

OP here. I guess I think I'm reasonable and maybe intelligent, but that wasn't the thrust of the post. As for your question though, even with the benefit of hindsight, the resistance thing still strikes me (and I think many people) as ridiculous. Whatever his personal wishes, trump simply does not have enough control over any institution that counts to be anything even remotely approaching a dictator. I get that he may well like the aesthetics, and he's definitely way too close to a wannabe authoritarian for my comfort, but it always struck me (and still does strike me) as insensitive to pretend like it's the same experience to be a Democrat under Trump as it is to be a dissident under Ceausescu or something. [/quote]

I guess you don't see that the Democrats are sounding the alarm about what is coming if we do nothing.  They are NOT saying that that is the way it is now. Where do you get your news ftom, BTW?[/quote]

OP here. I heard the Dems sounding the alarm bell, but it always struck me (and still strikes me) as disingenuous. To take just one point, in Sept 2022, Biden gave a speech warning about democracy being in peril at a time when the Democrats controlled the presidency and both chambers of Congress. When you layer in the fact that Democrats make up the overwhelming share of academia, the press, and increasingly business leaders, it just felt silly to act like the only threat to our multiparty democracy came from the Republicans.[/quote]

And yet, he was 100% right.

The GOP has full control, is dismantling our legal infrastructure, our educational infrastructure, our economic infrastructure and our political infrastructure.

Where did the democrats stage a coup or exer purges of our institutions?[/quote]

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