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Trump does not represent me. I stand with Ukraine!
My president is Zelenskyy now. It's not like I have one here anymore.
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With my recently reawakened misanthropy, still not far enough away.
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Credit: Todd Alcott
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Many of us in America are suffering from a failure of imagination because we assume that authoritarianism can’t happen in America. We believe that we are somehow special, and we’ll avoid the fate of so many countries, such as Hungary. The American Empire will remain strong, steadfast, and powerful even though every empire before us has fallen, usually corrupted and destroyed by its own hands. Our institutions, which have bent the knee to Trump, will somehow protect us from a right-wing takeover.
And yet, in 2025, a convicted criminal who incited a violent insurrection has returned to the Presidency, where he has pardoned 1,600 of his fellow MAGA redshirts and wants to compensate them for their traitorous actions. Trump is engaging in trade wars with our allies, threatening conflict with Greenland, openly musing about Canada becoming our 51st state, disappearing innocent immigrants to be tortured in an El Salvador prison, illegally freezing funds, dismantling government agencies without Congressional approval, bullying law firms and judges, cancelling the visas of students with foreign policy opinions he doesn’t like, and outsourcing his job to the world’s richest man who is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court after successfully buying the Presidency for $290 million.
None of this should happen in America, but it is happening. None of this is normal, but it has become normalized because Trump is an aspiring authoritarian propped up by the Republican Party and the country’s establishment that is utterly complicit in replacing our flawed democracy with a corrupt broligarchy. So, why is it unfathomable to imagine that Donald Trump will become President for a third time?
Over the weekend, Donald Trump told NBC News host Kristen Welker that he wants to stay in office beyond his Presidency even though the 22nd Amendment bars an individual from being elected for 3 terms. “Well, there are plans. There - not plans. There are methods - there are methods which you could do it, as you know,” he said. Trump was dead serious, unlike before when we were told he was allegedly joking. I was never fooled. I took him literally and seriously. I also said Trump wouldn’t leave peacefully in 2020 and that the GOP would only become more radicalized and violent during Biden’s presidency. People like me were called hysterical, reactionary, and told we were suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome
On Monday, the White House Press Secretary confirmed Trump’s statement and told Fox, “Trump is right. People love the job this president is doing.” By the end of the week, you can expect the entirety of the right-wing media and the Republican machinery to fall in line.
Wajahat Ali has a solid piece on the reality of Felon 47 illegally seeking a third term. It would be a nightmare.
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Source: thelefthook.substack.com
