The animating concept behind the Trump campaign will be chaos. This is what history shows us fascists do when given the chance to participate in democratic political campaigns: They create chaos. They do it because chaos works to their advantage. They revel in it, because they can see how profoundly chaos unnerves democratic-republicans—everyone, that is, whether liberal or conservative, who believes in the basic idea of a representative government that is built around neutral rules. Fascism exists to pulverize neutral rules.

So they campaign with explicit intention to instill a sense of chaos. And then comes the topper: They have the audacity to insist that the only solution to the chaos—that they themselves have either grossly exaggerated or in some cases created!—is to vote for them: “You see, there is nothing but chaos afoot, and only we can restore order!”

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    10 months ago

    The “he’s a dictator and never going to step down” fear mongering from last time turned out to be complete BS.

    TRUMP LITERALLY TRIED TO VIOLENTLY OVERTHROW A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT, YOU UNEDUCATED POTATO.

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      10 months ago

      He walked a bunch of morons to the building. The government wasn’t letting him take control.

      Even if Jan 6 took over the entire building… It’s a bunch of people inside the building.

      The government wasn’t listening to Trumps command to make him god emperor. 4 years passed and he gets kicked out.