Donald Trump vows to lock up political enemies if he returns to White House

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Former president tells Glenn Beck he would have ‘no choice’ but to lock up opponents ‘because they’re doing it to us’

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And deliberately normalizing that behavior is the issue. Same thing with racism, Trump doesn't create or promote racism, he just normalizes the racist behavior.

Well that goes without saying. These people were always like this, but social norms forced them to be more quiet about it. Career conman and karma Houdini Trump comes along and shows his people that not only can they be be open and proud of their worst qualities, they can get away with their behavior in nearly all cases.

But it doesn't. It needs to be repeated, over and over, by the people we elect to govern

Well if our system does what it's supposed to and brings the dumb bastard and his enablers to justice, we'll get our wish. But if it doesn't, and the system continues to prove that much of its mechanisms merely 'work' on an honor system and those who operate in bad faith can continue to ignore it, you can expect a constitutional crisis of epic proportions. Trump belongs in a cage.