If anyone doubts Republicans want a dictatorship, all you have to do is look at their actions. They’re using 10 keys to fascism in the hope, conscious or not, of unlocking a future where they and they alone are in power. It’s not just Trump’s big lie about the stolen election or the Jan. 6 insurrection. Those are just two of at least 10 elements in a strategy to dismantle American democracy and replace it with its antithesis.
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The entire impeachment process is built on a false premise: that politicians are fit to judge their own. It may have worked in theory in 1787, but it doesn’t work in theory or in practice now. Using a partisan grand jury and a partisan panel of political jurists to decide the fate of a sitting president (or any other partisan figure) is about as sensible as allowing members of Congress to redraw their own districts. When you trust the foxes to guard the henhouse, you shouldn’t be surprised if all your eggs have been broken and the chickens have been butchered.
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While most of us have forgotten, were too young to pay attention (like yours truly) or hadn’t been born yet, it was Democrats who torpedoed the only real chance to get rid of the Electoral College.
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If you see someone drowning, you shout to the lifeguard, “Hey, there’s someone DROWNING out there!” You don’t walk up casually and whisper in the guy’s ear: “Psst. There might be something going on out there. Take a look and tell me what you see.” If you see a house on fire, you don’t pass a note under the door of the burning structure with a suggestion that someone inside call the fire department.
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We Americans like to think of ourselves as innovators, people who “think outside the box.” We laud inventors and original thinkers... after they’ve become mainstream. But for the most part, we’re creatures of habit. We like the familiar, the tried and true. Heck, we even like the “tried” better than the untried, even if it’s not so true. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.
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On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump rode a golden escalator down to the basement of Trump Tower to announce he was running for president. … He was behaving very much like a messiah coming down from heaven, descending from that sacred realm where the streets (if not the escalators) are paved in gold.
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