"Classic Trumpism": Republicans brush off Trump telling supporters they "won't have to vote anymore"

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Salon

Published July 29, 2024 11:53AM (EDT)


“Get out and vote just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore,” former President Donald Trump told the crowd at a far-right Christian rally in Florida on Friday. “Four more years it will be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.” Asked about that comment Sunday, Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu dismissed it as a “classic Trumpism,” downplaying the former president’s threat to democracy. “Obviously we want everybody to vote in all elections, but I think he was just trying to make a hyperbolic point that it can be fixed as long as he gets back into office and all that," he said on ABC’s "This Week."

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., responded similarly when asked about the comment on CNN. “I think he’s obviously making a joke about how bad things had been under Joe Biden, and how good they’ll be if we send President Trump back to the White House so we can turn the country around,” Cotton said in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., laughed off Trump’s remark on CBS’s Face the Nation and said that the former President was merely implying that “the nightmare that we’re experiencing will soon be over.” “He's trying to tell the Christian community and anybody else who's listening, the nightmare that we're experiencing will soon be over, give me four more years and I'm gonna ride this ship called America and pass it on to the next generation,” he told CBS in attempt to explain the intent behind Trump’s comment.

While Republicans view Trump’s remarks lightly, Democrats do not. Many have said Trump's remark comes off as a threat. “The only way ‘you won’t have to vote anymore’ is if Donald Trump becomes a dictator,” wrote Rep. Danield Goldman, D-N.Y., on X.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/07/29/classic-trumpism-brush-off-telling-supporters-they-wont-have-to-vote-anymore/

[catrose]

1. He doesn't joke. We know this.

[tanyev]

2. Anonymous senior GOP official Nov. 10, 2020:

Speaking about President Trump’s and his legal team’s myriad and baseless claims of massive voter fraud, an anonymous senior Republican official offered a rhetorical shrug.

“What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change,” the official said. “He went golfing this weekend. It’s not like he’s plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from taking power on Jan. 20. He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits, those lawsuits will fail, then he’ll tweet some more about how the election was stolen, and then he’ll leave.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/10/whats-downside-humoring-him-gop-officials-unintentionally-revealing-quote-about-trump-era/

[LessAspin]

3. Trumpism authoritarian/dictatorship

Trumpism = authoritarian/dictatorship

Link to tweet

[markodochartaigh]

4. And if the Republicans

were able to get rid of elections, or at least corrupt elections to the point that they were meaningless, if they were confronted about it they would say that it was because of Democratic election rigging that they had get rid of elections.

Just like if the Republicans manage to privatize Social Security they will say that it was Democratic policies that bankrupted Social Security.

Just like a rapist blames the way a woman looked, or a bully blames his victims for giving him a reason to beat them up.

When the powerful blame the weak authoritarians usually believe the powerful because they identify with the power.

[Timeflyer]

5. They think we're stupid and as poorly informed as MAGAts--he said the quiet part out loud,

and Project 2025 is a cook book.

[Zoomie1986]

6. As I once asked a MAGA

If he tells it like it is, why are you always having to explain what it is that he's saying?

[Old Crank]

7. treasonous Iran suported Tom Cotton???

He should have been jailed by Obama for giving aid and comfort to the Iran regime.

[Martin68]

8. Can they really continue to get away with this? I have a feeling the "weird" label is going to nullify the

pass Trump gets for "just being Trump." He's truly being weird.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. GQP SOP

[orthoclad]

10. Always a joke.

Dems just don't have a sense of humor. Tyranny jokes are edgy and funny!