Senior Democrats in US cities are preparing to defend their communities in the event ofĀ Donald TrumpāsĀ return to the White House after the former president has repeated threats that he would use presidential powers to seize control of major urban centers.
Trump has proposed deploying the military inside major cities largely run byĀ DemocratsĀ to deal with protesters or to crush criminal gangs. He has threatened to dispatch large numbers of federal immigration agents to carry out mass deportations of undocumented people in so-called āsanctuaryā cities.
He also aims to obliterate the progressive criminal justice policies of left-leaning prosecutors.
āIn cities where there has been a complete breakdown of law and order ā¦ I will not hesitate to send in federal assets including the national guard until safety is restored,ā Trump says in the campaign platform for his bid to become the 47th US president,Ā Agenda47.
TrumpĀ provoked uproarĀ earlier this week when he called for US armed forces to be deployed against his political rivals ā āthe enemy withinā ā on election day next month. But his plans to use national guard troops and military personnel as a means to attack those he sees as his opponents go much wider than that, spanning entire cities with Democratic leadership.
Weāre thiiiiis close to the death of the āfree world.ā Fascism is a blink away.
Seriously, and itās his supporters that are the problem.
Trump is obviously a buffoon, but itās his mass of ignorant bigots, thieves, and exploiters that give him his power.
Even if he loses, these people arenāt going anywhere. They are the real problem.
Well they are going somewhere. Theyāre dying. And younger generations donāt share the popularity of his idiocy. Plus if he does lose, the Republican Party may very well implode being unable to sustain itself on mixing extremist views with moderate ones. This election is for all the chips basically.
Itās so sad too. I just visited a concentration camp and memorial in Germany with plaques highlighting the evils of facism and thought to myself wow, there it is, in my home country (US). And I hope we donāt continue to get worse.
I wish weād have that level of openness here in Romania. Thereās plenty of Romanians who think of the Holocaust as a specifically German thing and are wilfully ignorant about our complicity.
Donāt worry, It Canāt Happen Here.
EDIT: The capitalization is very important.
its arguably already here. Americans are unwillingly participating in a far right wing genocide which is splintering the entire western world order, the UN, the ICC, American soft power, and the concept of democracy.
A blink away from having all the levers of power.
Always has been.