06-03-2020, 04:27 AM
Here is the danger. I have heard one of the President's screeds, and he has finally gone full-bore Pinochet. People have no right, he asserts, to contest his moral authority. He has unilaterally stated that the President has dictatorial powers and can expect to use them. We could soon be at "comply or die" time -- or resist and save the Republic.
Trump has supporters who will stage outrages -- right-wingers willing to do violence and destruction that those creeps can blame on "the Left".
Trump has supporters who will stage outrages -- right-wingers willing to do violence and destruction that those creeps can blame on "the Left".
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.