Is Trump's Endgame a Dictatorship?

[nsguy2]

He started out by attempting to stigmatize Mexicans and has since proceeded to attack the disabled, women, Native Americans, the Pope, Muslims, his victims etc. The list goes on.

But what leads to me to wonder if he's up to something other than simply governing the country is his attacks on his own party, the media and most shocking of all, The Democratic Process.

When a candidate sets out to discredit - through flat out lies/falsehoods - not only the media and his very own congressional GOP allies, but the voting process itself, he's saying that everyone and everything is corrupt and only HE ALONE can fix it.

Does he want to run the country as he does his own "empire", with him as King?

How he operates his company is his business but to run a country - any country - in this manner is simply a dictatorship.

 

[gsdx]

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I don't think it's his endgame. He's not doing it to become a dictator. He's doing it to become president. HOWEVER, with his mindset, he will run the country as a dictator. He recognises a dictator when he sees one. He just doesn't recognise himself as one.

I think it's how it will end if he becomes president, but I don't think that's his plan.

 

[chrisrobin]

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..........
Hell

 

[rareboy]

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He's not really 'up' to anything.

He thinks you can run the US like a privately owned company. It is his staggering lack of understanding of how the Executive and the Legislative Branches work that I find most frightening.

His comment about using his position as President to impose term limits on the legislative branch is a perfect example.

 

[eastofeden]

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I think his end game is probably similar to Hitler....I can easily see him getting rid of anyone who doesn't kiss his ass or bow to him...

 

[Cormac135]

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I think his end game is probably similar to Hitler....I can easily see him getting rid of anyone who doesn't kiss his ass or bow to him...

That's very Un - American of you, we'll be having you in for a little chat.

 

[Vitamin]

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Well, his supporters didn't dub him "the God Emperor" for no reason.

 

[eastofeden]

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That's very Un - American of you, we'll be having you in for a little chat.

I had nightmares of him rounding up the Democrats in Congress and taking them away at the beginning of his hell ride of a campaign. I think the last time I had one was in July.....I was pissed off.....I had a meltdown for a couple of hours.....

I was around a lot of people who I have known for years and normally I am very friendly and talkative and I knew pretty much everyone there...over a hundred people...probably more than two hundred...and I was livid..on fire...so fucking angry and I told anyone who got near me to leave me the fuck alone and I told them how angry I was that this fucking dickhead was so close to the White House....no one there has ever seen me angry....they were scared

 

[rareboy]

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I heard one of his supporters declare that he was just second only to Jesus for her.

Ein Reich. Ein Volk. Ein Fuhrer.

 

[heir-to-the-wind]

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He certainly has contempt for the First Amendment. Dictators want to get rid of journalists and lawyers.

 

[nsguy2]

If elected (shudder), how long before he follows through with his desire to silence any media outlet(s) that dares to be critical of him and replaces them with some Trumped up, ego stroking, propagandic incarnation from the minds of Bannon and Ailes?

Surely the very possibility scares people.

 

[rareboy]

^ You don't have to worry.

He's not going to be elected.

 

[nsguy2]

^ You don't have to worry.

He's not going to be elected.

True enough.

 

[hotatlboi]

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He's doing it to become president.

Nope, he was never serious about winning from the very beginning.

He did not expect to be nominated.

When he made it that far, he went with it, but he has no actual desire to be president.

He's in the race to feed his narcissistic need for attention, to increase the value of his brand and media exposure, and to ultimately make even more money from his now rabid fan base.

He's still throwing out red meat to his base on a daily basis, which is not what you do in a general election campaign if you are serious about winning. His advisors have no doubt told him this, but he simply doesn't care.

 

[cityboy-stl]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi..._are_creating_a_neo-facsist_media_empire.html

Well Carl Bernstein says Trump and his followers are setting up a neo-facsist movement and empire. I've been saying that for months. The shear number of Trump's followers that have this mindset is frightening and that is what is making me feel very cynical about my country at the moment. The fact that that number of people, today in the United States of America, had they lived at a different time and place, are of the same mindset that elected Mussolini and Hitler. It is very disturbing.

And NotHardUp thinks I feel that way just because I'm old.

 

[Telstra]

How did he became the leader of the republican in the first place ?
Something must have gone wrong with the system.
The same with Bush and others (they are less qualified) but still got elected.

 

[hotatlboi]

How did he became the leader of the republican in the first place ?
Something must have gone wrong with the system.
The same with Bush and others (they are less qualified) but still got elected.

There is indeed something VERY wrong with the Republican party. It is facing a crisis that none of our major parties have faced for perhaps centuries. A candidate as unqualified as Trump should not have made it past the primaries.

Unfortunately the Republican party leadership didn't know just how out of control their party base was until this happened. This is partially their fault. They have tolerated and even encouraged the monstrosity that lead to this, which is the alternate reality their base lives in, i.e. the conservative echo chamber.

Consisting of a media empire that feeds their listeners bullshit conspiracy theories and other nonsense on a daily basis, corporate interests like big oil that create false narratives like global warming denialism for their own profit motives, and now clearly with Trump, a disaffected angry white group of voters motivated by racial nativism and virulently opposed to immigration and multiculturalism. Up until now, this cabal of interests has been contained and Republican voters as a whole have managed to ultimately settle on qualified mainstream conservative candidates (such as Romney, McCain, etc). Trump marks a departure from this, where the sane people in the Republican party were no longer able to hold back the crazies.

 

[Telstra]

There is indeed something VERY wrong with the Republican party. It is facing a crisis that none of our major parties have faced for perhaps centuries. A candidate as unqualified as Trump should not have made it past the primaries.

Unfortunately the Republican party leadership didn't know just how out of control their party base was until this happened. This is partially their fault. They have tolerated and even encouraged the monstrosity that lead to this, which is the alternate reality their base lives in, i.e. the conservative echo chamber.

Consisting of a media empire that feeds their listeners bullshit conspiracy theories and other nonsense on a daily basis, corporate interests like big oil that create false narratives like global warming denialism for their own profit motives, and now clearly with Trump, a disaffected angry white group of voters motivated by racial nativism and virulently opposed to immigration and multiculturalism. Up until now, this cabal of interests has been contained and Republican voters as a whole have managed to ultimately settle on qualified mainstream conservative candidates (such as Romney, McCain, etc). Trump marks a departure from this, where the sane people in the Republican party were no longer able to hold back the crazies.

You missed my point.
Something gone wrong with the whole US election system.
How did George Bush got elected? He wasn't qualified same as Trump.

 

[Kulindahr]

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He's not really 'up' to anything.

He thinks you can run the US like a privately owned company. It is his staggering lack of understanding of how the Executive and the Legislative Branches work that I find most frightening.

His comment about using his position as President to impose term limits on the legislative branch is a perfect example.

This.

When you grow up in just one world and never venture out of it, you get stuck with that worldview and never see reality.

In that sense, Trump is as bad as any professional politician D.C. insider: both are out of touch with reality, so they can't see the real world well enough to address its actual issues. Come to think of it, given that Congresscritters spend on the order of two thirds of their time pursuing money, they're not so far apart on what they do with their time.

This election is a great argument for undoing the Seventeenth Amendment, so at least Senators don't have to spend a majority of their time working to be re-elected -- that amendment is responsible for more corruption in D.C. that almost anything else. And it's a bigger argument for defining political rights as belonging only to living, breathing citizens ad legal residents!

 

[Kulindahr]

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He certainly has contempt for the First Amendment. Dictators want to get rid of journalists and lawyers.

To be fair, most ordinary citizens who've had to deal with our so-called justice system want to get rid of lawyers.

On journalists, I go with a common libertarian position: every college graduate should count as a journalist (including two-year degrees).