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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharles P. Pierce: Trump Has Access to Everything a Dictator Could Want
Trump Has Access to Everything a Dictator Could Want
He is consolidating power based on deceit at an alarming rate, and getting more popular as he goes.
By Charles P. Pierce
Jun 4, 2018
Heres what I learned during my brief sabbatical last week: if you ignore it, it only gets worse.
The president*, installed at least in part by ratfckers in the employ of a former KGB thug now running a murderous kleptocracy, has at his easy disposal everything a dictator could possibly want. He has combined an instinctive contempt for democratic government with a swindlers nose for easy cash and a junkie knifepoint robbers reckless disregard for consequences. He has a tight, loyal cabal of flunkies whod be chasing ambulances if it werent for their talents as sycophants. He has a largely impotent political opposition and a largely supine congressional majority. He is one vote away from a rubber-stamp Supreme Court.
He is succeeding in his campaign to delegitimize any criminal investigation of his various schemes; hes managed to put Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III on the right side of things. Hostile press, he can easily ignore. He is consolidating power based on deceit at an alarming rate, and, worst of all, he is becoming more popular for doing so among the only voters that matter to him.
According to the good folks at Gallup, the president*s approval rating among Republicans is the highest of any Republican president since World War II at this point in his administration* with the exception of where George W. Bush was at immediately after the attacks of 9/11. He stands at 87 percent approval among Republicans. (Administration remoras already are fudging this data to imply that the president* is the most popular president at 500 days since World War II. A considerable number of people probably believe that by now.)
I know I occasionally am criticized for being harder on the NeverTrump Republicans than I should beany port and all thatbut many of them played prominent roles over the past four decades in fashioning a political party 87 percent of which approve of the slow-rolling catastrophe that is only now really picking up speed. It is entirely possible that the momentum now is unstoppable. The country is hurtling toward the destruction of its most basic ideas about itself, and some of these people played a leading role in constructing the handbasket. There has to be an accounting for that, somehow.
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Charles P. Pierce: Trump Has Access to Everything a Dictator Could Want (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2018
OP
Including a sort of 3rd party movement that all but GUARANTEES continued power by
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2018
#1
Well, when my suspicions of who works for the KGB become known fact, shit is gonna
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2018
#6
Eliot Rosewater
(31,151 posts)1. Including a sort of 3rd party movement that all but GUARANTEES continued power by
the Nazi's.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)5. Sometimes I wonder if that's their goal
I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but surely they know what can happen.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,151 posts)6. Well, when my suspicions of who works for the KGB become known fact, shit is gonna
get real ugly but cant say I didnt warn.
Well, I cant really warn here...not allowed. Lots of em, putin and soviets been planting them here for 50 years.
bdamomma
(63,974 posts)2. this is happening
continually him chipping away at our way of life and our institutions. Is this how we are going down by an idiot who has other idiots doing his bidding??? When will it end? This is our country and he is only one person, Congress are a bunch of traitors.
Sad we have gotten to this point. Again, we must never do this.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,899 posts)3. Those Comgressional Republicans who allow Trump too much power.....
are going to find themselves getting the short end of the stick when they ask for their cut. Trump is loyal to no one. They just do not get it.
CincyDem
(6,419 posts)4. Unfortunately, by the time these asshats figure that out...the train will have left the station. n/t