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Date: November 06, 2024 at 09:19:55
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
URL: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4976386-trump-democracy-america/ |
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America will regret its decision to reelect Donald Trump
by Max Burns, opinion contributor - 11/06/24 10:00 AM ET
A presidential campaign defined by personal hatreds, threats of political violence and two foiled assassination attempts ended on Tuesday in a mostly orderly election. No matter what the results ultimately show, Americans’ commitment to a fair and peaceful vote is a thumb in the eye to authoritarians both at home and abroad.
That’s about all the joy Democrats (and lovers of democracy) will find in yesterday’s election results. The fleeting optimism that washed over the party after Ann Selzer’s storied Iowa poll showed Kamala Harris unexpectedly leading Donald Trump by 3 points has crashed back to reality. In its place is the realization that democracy’s worst-case scenario is unfolding in real time.
Our democratic institutions are not ready for what comes next. Neither are the American people.
The Trump who will walk into the White House on Jan. 20 is a man steeped in unsettled vendettas, who came within a hair’s breadth of a string of federal felony convictions that he is now empowered to wipe away with a self-pardon — as if those offenses and so many others had never even happened. Trump will see his priorities as he has always seen them: party over country and self over all.
A man with 34 felony convictions can’t win the presidency in a nation where trust in institutions is high. It’s only in a culture where the justice system has long since lost its legitimacy that a man with such a thick criminal record as Trump glides by relatively unremarked. That one man can so effortlessly game American institutions to his own benefit says as much about the decrepit state of America’s institutions as it does about the moral decrepitude of the crook.
The nine years of the Trump era have taken a bat to our democracy, and Trump’s MAGA movement has exploited the nation’s systemic weakness at every turn. Political misinformation flooded social media networks owned by Trump’s key allies, or by Trump personally. Meanwhile, Trump and compliant Republican lawmakers torched public trust in the courts — first by appointing an ethically vacant Supreme Court, and later by urging his followers to hate and distrust not only the judges who tried him but the entire “rigged” justice system.
Trump is now set to return to the White House, and he’s made no secret of his lofty goals for a second term: gutting the civil service, destroying the independence of the Justice Department and seeking political and legal revenge on his lengthy list of personal enemies. Judging by yesterday’s election returns, a majority of Americans are eager to see Trump do exactly that.
The former and future president now inherits a nation deeply weakened by his own toxic brand of politics. Our divided and exhausted nation will now need to fend off the constant extralegal whims of a president who is also, thanks to the Supreme Court, functionally immune from prosecution for any act he undertakes. If Trump’s first term was any indication, we won’t need to wait long for our next constitutional crisis.
Believers in the rule of law are in for a rough four years, because though Trump contradicted himself countless times during this marathon campaign, he never wavered in his distaste for the rule of law or his admiration for strongman autocrats. Members of the press can expect Trump to at least try making good on his oft-repeated pledge to rewrite the nation’s press freedom and libel laws. The rest of us will be along for the bumpy and chaotic ride.
It matters that Trump won his office in a free and fair election. It matters that free people voluntarily chose to cloak Trump in power he will almost certainly abuse in far-reaching and destructive ways. Our country made the choice to walk down the dark path of Trump’s resentments and conspiracies. We will come to regret it.
Max Burns is a veteran Democratic strategist and founder of Third Degree Strategies.
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 19:57:58
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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I was rereading some astrology articles that were
written back in the late 90's about the future of our
country...one of the things that jumped out at me was
that it is predicted that our Constitution will be
rewritten between 2026-2032 and that a different
government is likely to emerge from all this upcoming
upheaval.
2025 - the evangelistic people will be roused as never
before and ready to sacrifice themselves for a 'higher
cause'.Possibly even another Boston Tea Party type of
event in the spring/summer of 2025 with many states
declaring independence.
And given who is now in office, I don't doubt it at
all.
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 12:36:11
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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so much make believe in that article.
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 12:37:17
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 13:18:58
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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at least i live with joy in my heart each day. if that
is a sickness bring it on. i get God physically each
day to start it off. my wife is buddhist but she wants
me to go to church every day. she knows.
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 09:33:29
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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Absolutely - everything will be either eroded, destroyed
or eradicated - civil rights, women's rights, an
environment safe for our grandchildren, health care,
financial stability -
And wait until he enacts all those promised trade tariffs
with China and Mexico that is going to make SO many
everyday necessities far more expensive and will impact
the rest of the world as well- while increasing our
national debt by leaps and bounds...........
don't people get it?
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 11:26:27
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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Apparently, they (at least half) do not. Unfortunately,
they will soon and it'll be too late.
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 10:05:06
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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We have three generations of people who have lived with
the advantages paid for by blood, struggles and taken
for granted. They will not know what they have lost
until they hunger for it in memory. And that memory
will be in constant attack just as as Biden's years in
contrast to trump.
We remember. Propaganda is the true winner, the true
King, memory is the forgotten mother.
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 09:39:42
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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"don't people get it? "
obviously, 50% do not...
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 09:42:35
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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MORE than 50% is what I see....which is, sadly, showing
the status or lack of the intelligence in this country.
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 10:04:30
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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It has nothing to do with intelligence. This is
*absolutely and entirely ALL ABOUT FEAR.* And soul age.
All these years...*all these years* during which LGBTQ
folks, nonWhites, nonChristians, all those who anyone
might see as "alternative" have gained *some measure of
progress* in terms of equal rights, freedoms and
acceptance, there have been literally MILLIONS OF OUR
FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS WHO HAVE FELT...AGAIN, LITERALLY,
*THREATENED* BY all of those people. And I mean,
THREATENED PERSONALLY -- as if any of these human beings
could actually *deprive them of something crucial, their
freedoms, their rights, their very existence*...
Their response to these fears they have has been to
empower a political party that is morally corrupt enough
to *promise to do away with* ALL these Very Scary Things
and People...as if they were...wait for it...TRASH...
This is the power of out-of-control fear in action, in
the mind and sensibilities of a younger soul. It can make
you turn on your neighbor, your family, your beloved --
anything, or anyone, for the price of *PROMISED
SAFETY*...which is an illusion, as anyone who's given
life a moment's worth of thought, knows...
So GOPers have sold themselves and all of us, along with
them, out for the price of buying into a swaggering,
demented white man promising their safety...
I forgive them! Of course I do! But I will never, ever
forget that each one of them personally sold me, and many
people I love, straight out to the highest bidder...
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 09:51:55
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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"lack of the intelligence in this country."
In the old days.. when sugar cane was king in Hawaii.. the schools were
tasked with creating sugar cane field workers. We didn't need rocket
scientist but rather folks willing to do menial labor.. so that was the level of
education our schools offered.
I think that's what's been happening across the country.. Republicans need
undereducated constituents to survive. We've created legions of them.
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 10:01:37
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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Remember what dt said himself - he likes them
'uneducated'! only way they could win....
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Date: November 06, 2024 at 10:23:14
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: America will regret its decision to reelect D Rump |
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Exactly! And while this is so nauseatingly abhorrent to
anyone with solid ethics...I can't help but see how DJT now
coming at everything *so totally unhinged, as he is,* will
end up serving everything Democratic...
When people seriously believe *they've won,* they relax and
literally pull out all the stops... ;)
But that's what'll cause him, and his minions, to falter...
;)
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