He’s literally pro-dictatorship. Loves the way North Korea is ruled: with absolute authority and with harsh punishments for anyone who disobeys their ruler.
The man is furious that his presidency did not grant him that. If he is elected a second time, he will aim towards dismantling democracy for his own gain.
Yea I assume if he did win, his next step would be to dismantle presidential term limits. “Hey just make me emporer”
What protections are in place if any to actually prevent someone from doing that?
The 22nd Amendment, so it’s in the Constitution. Unfortunately the current Supreme Court would probably find a way to hugely misinterpret it.
God I hope there’s a good answer to this question.
Trump will go complete fascist
Yes, as opposed to his super progressive stances he’s had up until this point… He’s always been a complete fascist, thankfully for us he was just too dumb to fully capitalize on it while in office.
Trump isn’t a fascist. His supporters are. He just says whatever they want to hear 🤷♂️
Trump understood that, or at least his handlers and now he’s milking the fuck outta 'em.
He’s not fascist, he just says fascist things and encourages his followers to act in fascist ways.
If it looks like shit and smells like shit … It’s definitely not roses
Something something walks something talks something something duck
“Trump isn’t fascist he just says and does fascist things.”
Seriously?
My man out here is really “well actually-ing” fascism.
Okay, since you’re already here: how does it feel to be the dumbest person I know?
Trump isn’t a fascist.
nah. he’s a fascist.
Well I disagree. You seem to suggest he is a mastermind and has a plan.
He doesn’t. He’s an idiot. He just say to whichever side is the easiest side to convince whatever they want to hear and they’ll go with it.
If that make him a fascist, for you, so be it. I don’t care I’m not here to defend Trump, of all the people lol.
I just disagree that he stand for anything. He’s an idiot manipulated by bigger fish like Putin and whoever he own money to.
Who says fascists need to believe what they say?
Or that they need to be smart?
Fascism is not a coherent ideology. So the fact Trump says/does incoherent shit to maintain his power is actually evidence that he may be a fascist rather than evidence against it. This guy has no idea what he’s talking about.
He’s not not a fascist.
Are you defending trump or gatekeeping fascism?
What’s the difference? It’s a democracy. There’s some level of circularity between the people who vote for a candidate and the candidate themselves.
Well… sort of.
Trump never has held and never will hold any coherent political views of any sort. His entire focus is on himself, and the rest of the world only matters to the degree that he might manipulate people and things to feed his own ego, greed and lust.
So what’ll likely actually happen is that his mindless supporters will rage, the psychopaths who want the world that having him in power will bring will fan the flames of that rage while whispering in his ear, and yes - he’ll go full fascist. But not because of anything to do with fascism specifically - I doubt he can even grasp the broadest concept of it. It’s simply that that will be, and to some notable degree will be contrived into being, the thing that he will believe will lead him to what he really wants - simply to feed his bottomless ego, greed and lust.
He does hold coherent political views. If political views are those having to do with the allocation of resources, then you outlined them yourself. He wants to further his own ego, greed, and lust. He thinks the government should exist to fulfill his every desire, and that all resources should go towards fulfilling them. He’s the ultimate embodiment of corruption, with no guiding philosophy beyond selfishness. That is political, because wanting the world to bend to one’s own will through the use of government is political. It’s a kind of God-Emperor political philosophy.
He understands fascism instinctively, not in an intellectual sense.
Fascism is a lot like a government run by a toddler: Everyone who doesn’t like me is bad and I should kill them. Also people who are weird are bad and we should kill them. And that land over there is mine so I’m gonna take it. All the while I’m going to complain about how I’m the real victim.
Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky delves into this kind of psychology from the interesting angle of treating Narcissistic Sociopaths as an alien form of consciousness. It proposes that sociopaths hijack human social interactions, turning others into mere appendages that carry out the sociopath’s desires.
That’s a take out of left field. No one could have seen it coming. /s
He already did for quite a while now.
Are you seriously here asking for money? That page looks like it was set up by someone who learned web development by taking a YouTube video course.
This is the unpaywalled version of the page viewed through a proxy… Sorry it has that big ad there, but it’s better than the alternative of not seeing the content.
