(October 23, 2024 at 4:21 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Maybe it does go away after Trump loses. Back during the Watergate days there were many people who saw Nixon as a victim and if Nixon railed them there could have been some sort of uprising or some similar mess, but he went away and it all quickly calmed down.
How many riots were there when Nixon was forced to resign? How was Nixon going to rally anyone after Watergate when he had all the charisma of a dead fish? I don't think 1974 America and 2024 America are very comparable.
(October 23, 2024 at 4:21 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Now when it comes to some smart fascist (or even a smart Republican) I don't see that ever happening because in order to be a fascist you have to ultimately work against yourself. You have to be against a lot of stuff that make society function that no smart person would ever do.
You mean like impose tariffs to cover tax cuts? Maybe suggesting home remedies for a novel respiratory infection that was both easily transmissible and highly virulent? Or maybe suggesting to Putin that if he invaded a NATO that was not honoring the 2% rule, the US would not honor its Article 5 commitments?
Those are all impossibly stupid things that Trump said or did, and yet here we are, with this election within the margin of error.
(October 23, 2024 at 4:21 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: And it's hard to see how anyone could replace Trump in his abilities that he can say and do whatever he wants without any repercussions. Even Pence can’t get away with it.
There's another long list of counterexamples to address this, too. Vance, Greene, Speaker Johnson, and so on.
