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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m so old I remember when Reagan was Hitler. And Bush. And Bush Jr. And McCain. And Romney. And Trump the first time around. But this time, surely, that’s the end of us!

I would say it’s tiresome, but really, it’s mostly just funny to watch the same hysterics every few years. [/quote]

None of those (besides Trump):

Said they were okay with terminating the Constitution.

Called an election fraudulent and attempted to overthrow it both politically and by inciting violence.

Tried to get state officials to find them more votes.

Said that if they were elected voters would never have to vote again.

Had a Supreme Court decision putting the President above the law.

Trump was a threat to democracy his first term, he was just too inept to break through all the guard rails, but he managed to tear down enough to clear the way this term.  Our democracy has held because of checks and balances, but there’s not much left to check his power.  The other two branches of government shirked their responsibilities in favor of self-interest and then voters returned him to power (along with his MAGA supporters in Congress).  That leaves us with a bureaucracy that he is dismantling, a polarized media that is so biased on both sides that it has lost most of the trust it once had, and a military whose leadership he is trying to replace with loyalists, putting into question whether they would defy illegal orders from their Commander-in-Chief in defense of their oath to the Constitution - and military coups aren’t typically known for restoring democracy.

I fervently hope that I am wrong and my fears turn out to be needless paranoia.  I would be thrilled if time proves me wrong.  But portraying fears about this particular president as “business as usual” is deliberately misleading.  Trump’s own words and deeds have laid the basis for suspicion.  It may be traditional for liberals to accuse conservatives of being fascists (and conservatives to accuse liberals of being communists), but with Trump you have many conservatives (including myself) saying that this man represents a threat to democracy.

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