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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonald Trump Just Summed Up His Totalitarian Vision for America in 4 Words -John Nichols, The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-just-summed-up-his-totalitarian-vision-for-america-in-4-words/Barely an hour before the opening of the second debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential biographer David Maraniss put Trumps pre-debate shenanigans in perspective. After the Republican nominee for president held a debate-preparation press availability with women who his opponentss husband accused former President Bill Clinton of unwanted sexual advances, Mariniss described the stunt as the slimiest most depressing scene in modern American electoral history.
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The debate itself produced a slimier and more depressing scene: that of a candidate for the presidency of the United States proposing to use the position to investigate and jail his opponent.
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There are countries where winners of political fights have moved to jail their rivals.
But those countries are not constitutional democracies. Indeed, as Maraniss explained after Trumps ominous announcement: This is THE definition of fascism Trump saying Hillary would be in jail if he were president.
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The debate itself produced a slimier and more depressing scene: that of a candidate for the presidency of the United States proposing to use the position to investigate and jail his opponent.
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There are countries where winners of political fights have moved to jail their rivals.
But those countries are not constitutional democracies. Indeed, as Maraniss explained after Trumps ominous announcement: This is THE definition of fascism Trump saying Hillary would be in jail if he were president.
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Donald Trump Just Summed Up His Totalitarian Vision for America in 4 Words -John Nichols, The Nation (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Oct 2016
OP
“you’d be in jail” line was antithetical to every historic and contemporary understanding
Cha
Oct 2016
#1
That was the thing that stood out the most to me- Trump is a wannabe dictator. nt
LostOne4Ever
Oct 2016
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Cha
(297,273 posts)1. “you’d be in jail” line was antithetical to every historic and contemporary understanding
youd be in jail line was antithetical to every historic and contemporary understanding of the American experiment."
big ******* bully predator
big ******* bully predator
procon
(15,805 posts)2. But... but it worked so well for Nixon. nt
LostOne4Ever
(9,289 posts)3. That was the thing that stood out the most to me- Trump is a wannabe dictator. nt
pansypoo53219
(20,977 posts)6. red meat for the fuxians.