We must start urgently talking about the dangers of a second Trump presidency
With Trump’s victory in New Hampshire, the battle lines are drawn for November. Unless something very weird happens, we’re looking at a Joe Biden and Donald Trump rematch.
It’s time – past time, really – to sweep away any remaining delusions about the viability of a more moderate Republican challenger or what a second Trump term would bring.
Now the question isn’t who’s running but whether American democracy will endure.
To put it bluntly, not if Trump is elected. (story via The Guardian)
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How Many Ways and Times Must It Be Said
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Here’s just a couple…
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Coincidence?
There’s No Coincidence In Politics!
On 6 July in 1854, the Republican Party was officially organized in Jackson, Michigan.
On 6 July 1923, the Central Executive Committee accepted the Treaty of Union and the Russian Empire became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
On 6 July 2021, six months after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, all but a few of elected members of the Republican Party increase their blast of propaganda; now insisting there was no insurrection, no deadly assault by domestic terrorists on the seat of American Democracy, and certainly no one tried to overturn the legitimate election and inauguration of November 2020.
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And on this day, Lenin and Stalin would be very proud of the elephant-adorned Republican Party; and, Vladimir Putin is smiling and singing and sunning at one of his many dachas, or perhaps, having already sunned enough, strategising his U.S. 2024 election plans at one of his six residents in Russia (including one that was built for Joey Stalin).
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They Didn’t Like The Rule of Law or Constitutions, Either. Until, Of Course, It Was Their Rules and Laws
During his recent prime time speech outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September 1, President Joe Biden revived his campaign mantra – ‘Battle For The Soul of The Nation’.
But on that warm Thursday evening in Philly, Biden went beyond campaign slogans, quickly getting to the soul of the matter; the most dangerous threat to the United States of America: The rise of fascism within our own borders.
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