I support this man, and his ideas.

I've, legit, learned a decent amount of German just by having Google translate up on my second monitor browsing lemmy late at night.

I want to believe

Which were borrowed from Nazi characteristics, which were borrowed from Confederate army characteristics, which were borrowed from the KKK movement, etc.

It's a big circle jerk of fascism for hundreds of years that won't fucking die, because we keep taking the fucking high road against fascists instead of lining them up against walls.

There was a meme a while back that said there was nobody with blue hair or nonbinary at the barrista, that their coffee was going to suck.

This is kind of a continuation of that meme.

If nothing else Trump is going to unite the world against America, and maybe that's not such a bad thing for the rest of the world.

There've been a lot of mistakes made over the years.

I might be getting misunderstood here.

They are going to make an attempt for a third term. They are going to claim some constitutional loophole and the SCOTUS is going to agree with them.

This is and always has been their plan. They've been screaming it from the rafters for the last 8+ years.

This will happen one way or another, Trump will likely get "cleared" for a third term for some bullshit reason that every "constitutional lawyer" will decry foul on, but it will still happen because the pillars of our democracy have already crumbled.

After that happens, we can either try and fight it and live in the past, or we can lean into it and adapt to fascism to fight fire with fire until such time that we can rebuild the pillars of our democracy.

The 2 term limit was added as an amendment in 1947 after FDR was so damn popular that he would have just kept running and winning until he died, and the other side didn't like it.

They fascists should be more scared of repealing the 2 term limit than progressives, if they studied history. Which they don't. So here we are.

Edit: Why are you downvoting me for simply stating what is planning to and going to happen based on what's already been done so far? Trump should have never been allowed to run for a second term, he's got a 34 felony convictions, had several ongoing investigations and trials set including classified documents, fraud, rape, treason, and a coup attempt. If they cared about the constitution, he should have been outright barred from running at all, just like CO Supreme court ruled before the election. But the SCOTUS is in his pocket so they will overrule anything to give Trump an advantage.

This will keep happening, downvoting me does not stop it. We can talk about what the appropriate level of response should be when it does happen, which is what I assumed we were doing, but it's going to happen. I'm on the side of the camp that's tired of taking the high road against fascism. It sounds like you're not. That's ok. We're still on the same team and should work together to produce the optimal outcome for the most people here. We're not enemies. We just have different approaches/responses to fighting fascists. That's ok. I respect the high road perspective. I just don't think it's going to work. Because it hasn't yet, and all we do are pile up losses to fascists.

As mentioned in another reply, this is more fighting fire with fire sort of thing. They're going to trample all over the constitution one way or another here it looks like. They already have. the SCOTUS has legislated some incredibly unconstitutional rulings in the last several years, so it's going to keep happening.

We can either stick our heads in the sand and say: NO, MUH CONSTITNTUION, and hide behind what is ultimately just a piece of paper with some words on it if nobody in power is willing to defend it; or we can adapt and fight fire with fire until we can fix the institutions that have collapsed and recover our democracy.

If you try and take the high road with fascists, they'll just keep winning. That's literally what Fascism was created to destroy.

Absolutely not. I would rather the constitution not get used like toilet paper for this waste of human space. But if they go full authoritarian, why not lean into it and play our own hand in a similar vein?

I'm tired of taking the high road against fascists.

Let's be honest. His health isn't going to make it. But regardless, if true, we should run Obama against him just so he can lose to a black man, again, before he dies.

"Not resonating with voters"

Bernie and AOC's "Fighting Oligarchy" campaign is pulling in more people to their rallies than attended Obama's in 08.

Don't peddle that horseshit you Liberal traitor.