2020 GOP assurances. Don’t believe them now when they claim Trump won’t be a dictator. - ThreadSky

georgetakei.bsky.social • 439 days ago

2020 GOP assurances. Don’t believe them now when they claim Trump won’t be a dictator.

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litterygeniarse.bsky.social•439 days ago

I wrote this about the UK but the parallels in US and elsewhere are clear.
https://johnhuwevans.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/conservatives-vs-fascists/

nindrene.bsky.social•439 days ago

The headline should have been “This and other lies told by the GOP.”

drgdave.bsky.social•439 days ago

Especially when *Trump himself* promises that he WILL be a dictator!
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/10/trump-defends-dictator-comments-amid-nyc-soiree-filled-with-extremists-maga-diehards-00130968

uniondesign.bsky.social•439 days ago

That’s just “locker room talk”

jimbopeep.bsky.social•439 days ago

Don’t forget those golden oldies - “Trump will be great for the LGBTQ+community” and “Trump won’t mess with abortion rights - he’s really pro-choice!”

shepherdspider.bsky.social•439 days ago

"He'll pivot"
"There will be adults in the room"

You can go read old coverage from 1930's
Germany and it's the same empty reassurances.

3to3.bsky.social•438 days ago

A dictator only needs to win 1 election.

johnpbruni.bsky.social•439 days ago

Ross Douthat: "Peace for our time"

derek.bsky.social•439 days ago

This pretty much confirms the opposite of what they think it does.

This is all just gaslighting now.

norbizness.bsky.social•439 days ago

I mean, I understand the first, he's a co-conspirator and accessory after the fact, but the second editorialist should have quit and opened a laundromat or something. But that's par for the course in the horrifically milquetoast and whitewashing New York Times.

catspawdtp.bsky.social•439 days ago

“Noisy weakling” and “budding aurocrat” presented as if mutually exclusive, when history shows they absolutely are not—as the Republican Party clearly demonstrates daily. Always someone willing to prop up a stuffed shirt as a figurehead and someone else willing to follow blindly that figurehead.