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I know some of you will say it’s behind a pay wall. Pay the money and read it. I say that we are already there.
Trump supporters, how will you feel if you never have to vote again? That’s what he promised and I think it’s one promised that he plans on keeping.
“Sleepwalking into” would imply that we don’t see it coming. We may be simply marching in with gusto.
Numerous interviews from Trump rallies confirm this. Some, or many, flag wearing “patriots” would prefer a dictatorship so long as it’s their guy. Which is insane, and I don’t think it’s so much a damning critique of our recent leadership so much as it is the power of propaganda to distort people’s reality.
I will look to find again, but I posted an article a while back from someone previously in Hungarian parliament, and it really was frightening the similarity. It is not an overreaction to fear the duplication of Orban level autocracy.
I’m genuinely curious what current and former military members do if trump turns out to be what some fear he is. Especially the ones that voted for him.
I’m not American but I understand when you join the military you swear to protect the constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic.
I’m guessing a whole lotta nothing will happen.
Read it this morning and agree, one of many variations on a theme but a good one.
Here’s the gift link:
Look at his first term… he deported all the gays, put brown people in concentration camps, built a wall against Mexico, and declared himself dictator-for-life. And there was nothing the checks and balances and rights set forth in the American constitution could do to prevent it. No elections, we couldn’t vote him out, it was just terrible.
Yeah, I was going with rushing headlong.
The cabinet confirmation hearings are confirming there will be zero push back in Congress.
I’m a veteran. I was registered as a Republican up until 2016 but I supported Clinton, Biden, and then Harris. I switched my party affiliation to Dem once I accepted that the Republican Party that I had grown up with was gone (not that it was great, in hind sight).
I can count on one hand the number of vet buddies that I served with that share my political views. The rest seem to be all in for Trump and would never vote for a Democrat. The only reason I can think of for this allegiance to Trump is tribalism. I think they hate Democrats more than they love their country.
Pay for an opinion? I have many opinions you can pay for…
Oh, plz, I’m ALL EARS as to how Trump does all of this? Plz give a detailed description of exactly how Trump could turn us into an autocracy? Get hold of the Congress, you know, the half that hates him? Get control of the (halfway) woke military by just telling them to take over state governorship? The Media LOVES him so it should be simple then, right? Big Tech should just bow down to him, too, but they tend to be run by Lefties. And of course the FED will do his bidding?
No, plz detail how he achieves this Mussolini Maneuver when even Trudeau couldn’t do it? This might be the stupidest, most irrational post of 2025 but we are early in the year.
You didn’t read the article, did you?
Your post is probably the most irrational post of 2025, but there are many days left for you to out do yourself, so I’ll reserve judgement.
He is a twice-impeached — and now convicted and sentenced — felon.
With Orban as a model: there is no doubt he’s out for retribution, using the very systems he bent and broke over the past decade.
Nope! I’ve NEVER talked to a Democrat who could accurately flesh out a real, cogent path to autocracy that Trump would be capable of. I’m still waiting.
So you rushed to defend Dear Leader and did not even read the article you were posting about said…so MAGA.
The authors core message is to explain how Orban consolidated power in Hungary and how Trump could follow that path here. I spend a lot of time in Hungary and my business segment was aggressively targeted by Orban. He is extremely corrupt and the author describes his actions accurately, but I doubt Trump will have much success mirroring his actions.
Orban was very successful in dismantling opposition media. Yes, Trump will attack “disloyal” media but I doubt he will be able to dismantle it like Orban did. Orban was also very good at weakening opposition political parties, I doubt Trump can do the same to the Democrats.
My assistant is Hungarian and lives in Hungary. Her husband was one of Orban’s propagandists, no joke that was his job. He is a former journalist. She now calls Fidesz a “Cult” and is disgusted by it.
Trump dreams of being the leader of an autocracy but ultimately, he will fail.
Silly fear-mongering. Meanwhile, they tried to block inauguration through desperate law fare, the real Autocracy we should be talking about: https://conservativebrief.com/urge-use-88571/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=DJD&fbclid=IwY2xjawH1HB9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHS8r-hWbl6wC8svrChllpQ9bNKNSYyltgh_ysKt0332ClmkPaHLKidLEqQ_aem_jRfJJr3WJubfeeFsFNN4Gw
You know that you can do gift articles. That little present icon…
No they didn’t. They wrote an op-ed, Congress ignored their click bait.
Meanwhile, your guy…
Final Report on the Special Counsel’s Investigations and Prosecutions Volume One
Jack Smith had no jurisdiction or power as “special” prosecutor. And he pitched up and out of the fight out of airspeed and ideas. Done. Over.