The German example of a democracy sliding into dictatorship is a warning as to how it could happen here. We are seeing a slow motion coup setting the stage for the end of the United States of America as the leader of the free world. As things now stand, this probably is more likely to happen than not.
The base that Fox has cultivated for Trump is psychologically the same as Hitler’s base. They are white, conservative, “Christian”, more rural than urban, ignorant, resentful of the “elites”, possessing of angry temperaments. Such people are the kind that are willing to bite their nose to spite their face. They are seduced by a big lie. With Hitler it was the “stab in the back” that he used to explain Germany’s loss in WWII along with the slander of the Jews. These were obvious lies to the well informed of the day. With Trump the biggest lie is that he won the very election that he lost.
When Hitler became chancellor (prime minister) on January 30, 1933, he had less power than a US president. The head of state was the most powerful position (President von Hindenburg). What plunged Germany into dictatorship was a manufactured crisis (the Riechstag fire). This allowed him to put Germany into a state of emergency and the legislature passed the Enabling Act which allowed Hitler to rule by decree.
Trump flirted with the idea of declaring a state of emergency in order to achieve his coup. He probably regrets that he didn’t. There is a precedent for a president to ignore the constitution and the Supreme Court. This was done by our greatest president https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-lincoln-suspends-the-writ-of-habeas-corpus-during-the-civil-war.Term limits are only meaningful if they are enforced. The Republican tyrants have learned history. Stalin once famously said: It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the voteshttps://www.inspiringquotes.us/quotes/AJ37_qRMnyuo3, hence their efforts to stack the elections with traitorous hacks.
The midterms are expected to see the yield to the traitors as it is expected that many Democrats will sleep out the election, not recognizing the sacrifices that they will involuntarily make as a penalty for this indifference to danger. Democratic officials need to wake up and sound the alarm. These next few elections are really all about keeping democracy or plunging into dictatorship. The Taliban is a good modern day example of what happens when the most stupid, malevolent and ignorant of a population seize control of a country.
People used to laugh at the idea of Hitler becoming chancellor of Germany too. As long as this idea is dismissed it could happen. Trump would be younger than Rupert Murdoch is now after 3 terms and we know how much damage that old man is doing even without presidential power. His base will vote in huge numbers like they did in the governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Trump is currently ranked as tied for the third worst president in History by historians www.c-span.org/…
Yet his base believes that in spite of all his awfulness he was cheated out of an election. They are brainwashed and determined to destroy this country without having a clue as to the fact that they are doing so.
As long as Democrats dismiss him like the Social Democrats in Germany did Hitler he can pull this off.
Trump is a laughingstock amongst world leaders www.google.com/… They all see through him. America will become a pariah state like Germany was if he is allowed back for good. When he was laughed at by world leaders at the US it was front page news around the world.
The Australian state TV has an excellent documentary about Trump, Fox News and the big lie. www.google.com/… The world, all except the fox dupes call it the big lie. These fools CANNOT be allowed to govern.