Trump Promotes Alarming Washington Post Column Warning His Presidency Would Be a ‘Dictatorship’
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He's coming right out and saying it. What more do people need? You'll be safe if you're a white, cishet, Christian man. Anyone else who helps this guy into office could be potentially signing their own death warrant and he's coming right out and admitting it. Promoting it.
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I don't think that's right - the bar for "explicit acknowledgment" is pretty high. The context of the post indicates to me that he's saying "they used to claim I couldn't win the election, but now that everyone can see that I can, they've switched to claiming that it would be really terrible if I won." The message is "look how scared of me they are" and "look how powerful even they acknowledge I'd be" and not necessarily "I'm going to be as bad as they say."
(If I ever have the Washington Post compare me to Julius Caesar, I'll be sending that article to everyone.)
When my loved ones and I are being marched to the gas chamber I know I'll be thinking about whether or not we were charitable enough to the man ordering our execution back when he could have been stopped.
I'm not telling you to be charitable. I'm saying that the words "explicit acknowledgement" actually mean something, such that this isn't an explicit acknowledgement.
Well yes, that is the dishonest "plausible deniability" he frequently uses for exactly this sort of thing.
It's just a super crazy coincidence that he keeps talking about destroying democracy and linking articles discussing himself as a literal dictator.
This kind of ambiguity is where these people thrive. Those who want to charge will hear him calling them to arms, those who want to ignore him can think he said nothing too bad.
With this guy it's definitely ok to interpret everything he does or says the worse way possible. We have seen him act in the past, he has lost the benefit of doubt.