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Former GOP insider: Trump has "reprogrammed a generation" to fight against democracy
Former GOP insider: Trump has "reprogrammed a generation" to fight against democracy
Former Trump aide Miles Taylor: "The risk of political violence is high" no matter who wins this election
By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED APRIL 16, 2024 5:45AM (EDT)
(Salon) The first of Donald Trumps four criminal trials is finally underway in Manhattan. This trial, on campaign-finance charges related to Trump's alleged "hush money" payments to Stormy Daniels, is truly historic, marking the first time in American history that a current or former president has been tried for criminal offenses.
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Miles Taylor served as chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security during Trump's first term. He spoke out early about Trump's unfitness for office, as author of the 2018 New York Times Anonymous editorial. Since then, Taylor has written two books, A Warning and Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from Trumps Revenge. His new paperback edition of Blowback has just been published, incorporating an argument that Trump's second administration will be far more competent and formidable in its assault on American democracy and the rule of law than the first one was.
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How do you assess Donald Trump and his MAGA movements danger to the safety and future of the country and our pluralistic democracy?
Look, Im still a conservative. This isnt about a Republican coming to the White House. I dont even think Trump is a real Republican. Its about a man whos said he wants to use government as a tool of revenge and to advance his own self-interest. That sort of intent sitting atop the spy agencies and military apparatus of the government writes its own horror story.
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Why do you think the news media and political elites haven't made the global dimension of this threat to our democracy much clearer?
Attacks on Western democracy from within were not on my bingo card post-9/11. I fear the wayward ex-president will get his way eventually in trying to chip away at the community of democracies. He neednt win back the White House to execute his vision. Trump has done something more insidious. By co-opting the Republican Party, he has reprogrammed a generation of devotees with his anti-constitutional and anti-democratic views. Copycats will try to fulfill his unfinished plans well beyond his lifespan, an undertaking made possible because GOP leaders have anesthetized their consciences and normalized Trump-like conduct for a decade. ..................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/16/former-insider-has-reprogrammed-a-generation-to-fight-against-democracy/
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Former GOP insider: Trump has "reprogrammed a generation" to fight against democracy (Original Post)
marmar
Apr 2024
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Lovie777
(14,248 posts)1. A small loud obnoxious portion.....................
not the majority.
pwb
(12,107 posts)2. Trump is mostly a sensationalized freak.
In every regard. His base is tiny and shrinking daily. IMO.
DENVERPOPS
(9,729 posts)3. He is a Frankenstein's monster
created by this "New" FASCIST Republican Party.......The top 50 Corporate/Fascist party members are sitting in the U.S. Sentence. If it hadn't been for them, Trump would have been thrown out on day one, and found guilty of impeachable offenses and Treason...... Not once, but twice......