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Because in a functional democracy, threatening opposition is encouraged and often leads to a healthy society. /s
I’m starting to think his goal might not be a healthy society.
I have young kids. They often say things like “if I were president, I would—“ and then say some borderline totalitarian nonsense like “make it illegal to put pickles on burgers” or some other thing that is self-focused and completely misunderstands the nature of the presidency.
Which is all to say that Trump holds the same view of the presidency that a five-year-old does. And he occupies the office. Awesome.
He said it himself:
https://theweek.com/speedreads/575962/donald-trump-tells-biographer-hes-same-now-first-grade
Honestly he was probably better as a first grader because he hadn’t learned everything about how to be an unrelenting asshole yet
One of the few times I 100% believe him
Beginning to think he isn’t very honest, either.
Or a good businessman.
He'd sorta have a point about people shouldn't be able to just dump a few millions on elections to influence them, but since Elmo did literally that for trump it's not only too late, it's also hypocritical as shit
Which makes sense because for Republicans it's always them accusing Democrats of what they are doing themselves
I'm not worried about the hypocrisy here. I couldn't give a f*** about Trump being hypocritical. But I care an awful lot that he's threatening to do something terrible to someone he considers a political opponent.