Congrats to the Washington Post for headlining the story about the dangers of another Trump presidency: A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.
Glad to see The Washington Post open the door to criticizing the orange man. And to remind us that we must pull out all stops to maintain what remains of our democracy, and to stop this heinous dictator from re-assuming power.
Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. In 13 weeks, Donald Trump will have locked up the Republican nomination.
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Even today, the mainstream news media, including The Post and NBC News, is joining forces with Trump’s lawyers to seek televised coverage of his federal criminal trial in D.C. Trump intends to use the trial to boost his candidacy and discredit the American justice system as corrupt — and the media outlets, serving their own interests, will help him do it.
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If Trump does win the election, he will immediately become the most powerful person ever to hold that office. Not only will he wield the awesome powers of the American executive — powers that, as conservatives used to complain, have grown over the decades — but he will do so with the fewest constraints of any president, fewer even than in his own first term.