Trump has also targeted law firms who have filed lawsuits he opposes, while the Federal Communications Commission, led by a Trump appointee, is investigating every major broadcast network except Fox, which owns the pro-Trump Fox News channel. Trump has personally sued news channels over critical coverage and fired the government’s top labour statistician because she published jobs data that he didn’t like.
He has threatened Democrats with prosecution, and demanded that former president Barack Obama be investigated for treason. Trump has done all this as his family has ostensibly earned millions of dollars from his presidency.
None of these things are typical for a democratic leader. So … is Trump a dictator?
“Yes, of course,” said Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of sociology at Princeton University who spent years researching autocracies including Hungary and Russia. Scheppele said she had been wavering on using the term “dictatorship” until recently, but said: “If I was hesitating before, it’s this mobilization of the national guard and the indication that he plans to overtake resistance by force that now means we’re in it.”
And surprisingly, the GOP is dead silent about the dictator and all his anti-GOP decisions.
I remember when i was a conservative, this shit would not fly. The minute the orange man even mentioned sending out national guard, the forums, facebook, NRA page, EVERYTHING would have blown up if this was 15 years ago.
But since they have a false sense of power now and the people they don’t like are being targeted, they are fine with all of it. It really proves that the GOP doesn’t have any plans to make the country better, only revenge and enriching the wealthy.
I hope one day the GOP voter base realizes they are being fooled and lied to, but most of them can’t open their mind enough to accept it. It took me decades to realize the error in my ways, but many refuse to change.