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GOP anti-Trump group launches TV ad comparing Trump to infamous dictators
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The 40% who will continue voting for him are so brutally stupid and warped that none of this sort of message will make a damn bit of difference to them.
Remember that neurologically, conservatives are primed for fear and anger so they lap up the negative shit that Trump and people like him feed them. They think “Mmm… yeah Hitler was an angry guy wasn’t he? I like being angry too. Yay! Let’s party!”
The last of the lead addled generation.
and the other 60% who continue to support him LIKE that he is like dictators. I don't think American conservatives or liberals are prepared to actually fight for democracy. They've been dragging their feet and giving him special treatment, when THE ENTIRE PREMISE of the country is we're all supposed to be equal. They cannot even understand the entire point of Democracy is to NOT let someone push their singular will. A wannabe dictator trying to rise should be the fucking easiest piece of shit to throw in jail, yet here we are...
Democrats (a a whole) want to enforce the rules and laws by respecting them and using them in a manner befitting the good faith actions they expect the populace to exhibit.
The GOP has been on a slow drift since the 1950’s towards not acting in good faith and doing whatever they can to bend or outright break rules that don’t suit them. This decline in behaviour accelerated with GWB and the Florida ballots, and then went off the fucking cliff when (GASP!!!) a black man ((sotto voce) Dear Lord, help us) took office.
Trump’s rise (was it the Simpsons fault for being an oracle, thus causing it?) is merely the symptom of this insanity. In one sense we are all (the world) lucky that the person channelling that lightning is so incompetent as a human. We may yet find a temporary reprieve in the race to the destruction of the American Experiment if he can be brought to heel under law.
But also to your point, yes it’s likely that the Dems need to ‘grow a set’ to get stuff done as well as to capture the imagination of those who feel they need a ‘strong leader’.