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.
The #NYTimes once published an article saying that #Hitler wasn’t really that bad. He was just using #antisemitism as a way to attract followers & keep them excited about his #political campaign.
The NYTimes more recently published an article saying that #Trump isn’t really that bad. He is just using threats of #violence & #authoritarianism as a way to attract followers & keep them excited about his political campaign.
If there are people around you who believe “it won’t be that bad,” people who are annoyed by what they perceive as liberal “alarmism,” just read this out loud to them a few times and force them to actually reflect on what Miller is outlining here. It’s utterly terrifying.
@tzimmer_history Most sane people have a pretty different understanding of what it means to be "unfriendly."
Trump is a clear and present danger to the US and the entire world.
@tzimmer_history What is the Project 2025 mandate?
Expansion of presidential powers
Project 2025 seeks to place the entire Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government under direct presidential control, eliminating the independence of the DOJ, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and other agencies.
Let this one resonate a while: No meaningful checks on abuse of the Insurrection Act, which Trump is constantly promising to invoke; no reliable safeguards whatsoever.
Please read the whole piece by Ron Brownstein: These are the stakes in the 2024 election, outlined with sickening clarity.
@tzimmer_history And that's what he means by "dictator for the first day."
And then he would continue to be. The most ridiculous, horrific, and in fact CHILDISH abuses of power that anyone ever dismissed as impossible are absolutely the first things he'd go for.
@tzimmer_history Given that the man has no fixed beliefs about anything except how to scam others and protect himself, methinks his lashing out in such a ridiculous way is related to his fury at "the elite" for not even accepting him when he became POTUS. He has desperately wanted their approval at least ever since his dad told him they were Queens, not Manhattan developers. So he just breaks things. He's deranged and very emotionally damaged goods.
@tzimmer_history we know by now the percentage of stupid, and the outside evil influence in the USA are ample to make this the gravest risk of pulling total societal collapse forward in time.
We're all really scared, so can us peeps please educate yourself and put your democracy in order?
I’m getting a lot of “Trump promised to build The Wall in 2016 and that never happened, so this is all just more empty threats from a bunch of clowns” comments.
A lot of people simply do not grasp how fundamentally different the situation going into a second Trump presidency would be.
Most of what Republicans wanted to accomplish during the Trump Administration was accomplished with Biden in the Oval Office. I don't even know what they want now because Biden let them get most of what they've wanted over the past 40 years. His idea of leadership has been to give Republicans and fascist techbros what they want while telling Democrats that they're the ones winning. It doesn't feel like winning, it feels like being a fucking doormat.
@tzimmer_history it's silly to me how quickly people forget the utterly toxic and precarious environment that existed during his first term. Maybe it wasn't as pronounced to others and I'm projecting. I'm quite concerned though.
@tzimmer_history Man the wall was like, mostly already built by 2016 too. Everything about Trump is fake.
“In May 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that it had 649 miles (1,044 km) of barriers in place. An additional 52 miles (84 km) of primary barriers were built during Donald Trump's presidency.“
I really wish more Americans would realize that the wall was already built by the time Trump was elected. It was mostly built by Democrats. Living in this country is surreal.
We need to grapple with the fact that the Right - through “Project 2025”-style planning, preparing, staffing, and because of a different environment (SC, fully Trumpified GOP, ubiquitous threat of violence) - would be in a position to translate more of that rhetoric into action than during Trump I.
@tzimmer_history At least we have clearly established how Hitler could rise to power. Back in the day you had to fight your way through a book’s worth of turgid prose to understand what was going on. Now you get the receipts electronically beforehand and people still can’t be arsed to prevent the worst.
@tzimmer_history Glad you mentioned it. Whoever the GOP nominates will follow it in case anyone thinks Nikki Haley endorsed by Koch would be a better choice than Trump. Fully Trumpified Heritage Foundation too. Wonder how far back they will roll back rights 1850?
@tzimmer_history@samlitzinger These “deniers” know the score. They just avoid defending their position by dodging the issue. Some people kid themselves their whole life about racism, inequality and even genocide. They slip on their constructed reality like comfortable old shoes every day.
@tzimmer_history When the party of «states’ rights» approve of a candidate that wants the federal government to wage war against states you know it was never about states’ rights but just about the party.
and if we weren't keeping the local #MAGA cops of every major city #police department fully paid and well-trained at things like destroying #homeless encampments then the neighboring state's #NationalGuard wouldn't stand a chance, but #liberal governors and mayors are doing exactly that