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'Huge issue': Trump's new interview spurs growing calls to cover his 'cognitive decline'
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You know when the drumbeat of Biden is old happened? Even though Trump is just a few years younger? That's got to happen with trump. The Republicans must be held accountable.
That’s cool, but Republicans don’t give a shit.
Look, with Biden, we knew there was an entire cabinet and group of career professionals quietly working behind him. No good leader does everything alone.
There are people behind Trump, too. But those people are terrifying, actually far scarier than Trump himself. Do you want a President Vance? Are you ready for a Yarvinian/Thielian cyberpunk dystopia “Network State”? Ready to invade Greenland? Ready to carpet bomb Gaza? Ready to ship off liberals and “communists” to El Salvador for “terrorism”? Ready for some Handmaid’s Tale shit?
For fucks’ sake, man, “Trump being old” is not the same thing as “Biden being old,” because the people behind Biden were more-or-less normal people, not Machiavellian loyalists, and certainly not a weird coalition of religious wingnuts, evil nerds, eccentric billionaires, and pro-Russia sycophants.
All the people behind trump don't have the 40% cult followers to back them up. Look at all of the republican elections, they're the ones getting blamed.
I genuinely appreciate your optimism.
I submit that once they’re finished dismantling our institutions and rule of law, they won’t need popular support anymore.
We’ll see. I hope I’m wrong.
Trump is better at it this time, but he did all of the same shit his first term. Look how quick Biden fixed it or got it going back on the same track. Was Biden perfect? Nah, but he was a great president. We can't get despondent.
Someone posted a Bush article and a Reagan article, they were pretty horrific. They just hid it better. We've been down this road before. I'm not saying it's going to be a good time, but we can fix this.
How can we fix it if checks and balances are gone, the legislative branch is steamrolled by executive order, and judicial rulings can be completely ignored by the executive branch?
There may not be elections anymore going forward.
It’s not despondency, it’s realism. They’re working the Nazi playbook. This is how liberal democracies die.
You're not wrong, but democracy is dying, it's not dead. We have to fight for it by protesting, voting and volunteering.