The biggest challenge in 2024 is to get enough people to actually listen to what Trump and those around him are openly, consistently, and explicitly promising to do once they get back to power.
It is utterly deranged, and discounting it as just rhetoric would be a disaster.
@tzimmer_history If he doesn't mean it, then he's not campaigning in good faith and you shouldn't vote for him, if he does mean it then he's promising to be a fascist dictator and you shouldn't vote for him.
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The sad part to me is that Trump probably forgot that he ever said this about 5 minutes after he said it, but the people around him are psyched to remember it forever.
@tzimmer_history This is literally what happened in 1933 in Germany. People claimed it wouldn't be so bad; Hitler was appointed Chancellor; six weeks later concentration camps were running, and democracy was gone.
@tzimmer_history Nonetheless it is, in fact, being dismissed as retoric almost every day, by mainstream press outlets... it's the centrist curse & it's going to get us all killed.
@tzimmer_history Deploying red state national guard into blue states to enforce the deportations sounds like Trump is calling for civil war. #TrumpForPrison
@tzimmer_history first, I believe Biden will win 2024. But as you say, people seem to think that if the unthinkable happens, we can still rely on various of pur institutions - namely the courts - to hold the line. Such wishful thinking will be quickly disabused...first will be invoking Insurrection Act & martial law....according to the law...but that's the end of "per the law". Then the purges will begin, & deportations, and the packing of institutions w/ thugs & friends.
What I don't get is that people in the US are still behind trump despite this language are they so deluded, they will be rounded up against their friends and family.
Once you remove immigrants who have vital skills, what do you then do to maintain the industries that use those skills. Or does Trump and friends not think that far ahead.
If you consider that Netanyahu wants to do the same in Gaza, people don't see that either.
@tzimmer_history What a repulsive revolting man. In Europe we detested this clown being reported when he was President. His criminality is a shame for thé USA and he should be convicted.
@tzimmer_history Unfortunately, describing his plans as 'deranged' also doesn't serve your purpose. These plans are calculated, follow a template used by previous fascist leaders and are well thought through by his far right backers. None of us should be complacent, as you say, but we are up against a well oiled machine that is far from deranged.
@tzimmer_history I suspect that an even bigger challenge will be to get normal people to realise that people who vote for a terrorist support terrorism. They're not complaining about alarmism because they think he's lying about aiming for dictatorship. They know he's not, they just don't want to be judged for supporting it.
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I don’t know what the hell is happening to National Public Radio (NPR) but according to one of their commentaries, today, “… it's possible that the comment [by Trump about encouraging Russia to go after “delinquent” NATO allies] was just a throwaway line at one of many rallies he will hold before the election."
@tzimmer_history Trump has now ordered the GOP cult to anoint Laura Trump as chair of the RNC.
Just straight up dictatorship stuff is more or less all that pours out of his mouth. Sadly the chuds seem to have been sold post-apocalyptic fantasies where somehow they'll be The Road Warrior instead of a pit slave sampling the pig feces for their master. :/
@tzimmer_history The troubling thing is that far too many people are actually listening to what Trump and those around him - and a lot of others in other countries - are openly, consistently and explicitly are promising.