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2024-01-27 Home Front: Politix

[Rachet News] The fix is in. To "protect democracy," democracy is already being canceled. We just haven’t admitted the implications of this to ourselves yet.

On Sunday, January 14th, NBC News ran an eye-catching story: "Fears grow that Trump will use the military in ’dictatorial ways’ if he returns to the White House." It described "a loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers" that is "quietly" making plans to "foil any efforts to expand presidential power" on the part of Donald Trump.

The piece quoted an array of former high-ranking officials, all insisting Trump will misuse the Department of Defense to execute civilian political aims. Since Joe Biden’s team "leaked" a strategy memo in late December listing "Trump is an existential threat to democracy" as Campaign 2024’s central talking point, surrogates have worked overtime to insert existential or democracy in quotes. This was no different:

"We’re about 30 seconds away from the Armageddon clock when it comes to democracy," said Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, adding that Trump is "a clear and present danger to our democracy." Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward, one of the advocacy groups organizing the "loose" coalition, said, "We believe this is an existential moment for American democracy." Declared former CIA and defense chief Leon Panetta: "Like any good dictator, he’s going to try to use the military to basically perform his will."

Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice and current visiting Georgetown law professor Mary McCord was one of the few coalition participants quoted by name. She said:

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-27 09:45|| || Front Page|| [33 views ] Top

#1 Isn’t it interesting that the people who were claiming in 2016 that Trump will wreck the economy and get us into WWIII are the same people who have wrecked the economy and are getting us into WWIII.

Posted by Warthog 2024-01-27 09:58|| 2024-01-27 09:58|| Front Page Top

#2 ..its called Freudian Projection. One of the hallmarks of the Left.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-27 10:41|| 2024-01-27 10:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Whatever the left says the right will do, they are planning to do.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-01-27 12:55|| 2024-01-27 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 We believe this is an existential moment for American democracy

I thought USA is a republic?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-27 13:26|| 2024-01-27 13:26|| Front Page Top

#5 ...it was. It's pretty much an oligarchy at the moment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-27 13:36|| 2024-01-27 13:36|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Well, the man said "if we can keep it.".

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-27 14:12|| 2024-01-27 14:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Still a Republic, but more in the late Roman Republic sort of way. The powerful men make sure they get what they want and fuck everyone else. In Rome, the people that opposed them were beaten to death by the Senate mob and tossed in the river. Nowdays they are destroyed on social media and the DOJ.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-01-27 14:22|| 2024-01-27 14:22|| Front Page Top

#8 09.17.1787 - "A republic, if you can keep it."

Good sirs, the problem is not Trump, it is what follows Trump. After all he has only 4 years.

Posted by jefe101 2024-01-27 15:35|| 2024-01-27 15:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Four years or eight? This term is not consecutive to his last one...

Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-27 16:14|| 2024-01-27 16:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Four, only Truman had the option due to ex post facto prohibitions.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-27 16:34|| 2024-01-27 16:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Eight total. Only Obama got an extra Biden four

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-27 17:11|| 2024-01-27 17:11|| Front Page Top

#12 The answer is to make it really hard for them to fake it — vote in person, volunteer as a poll watcher, help with True The Vote or whatever voter-rolls cleansing group is active in your area, drive other Republicans/conservatives to the polls who would otherwise not bother...

Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-27 17:28|| 2024-01-27 17:28|| Front Page Top

#13 This year I will be doing a voter registration drive at the cemetery like dems do.

Posted by Angealing B. Hayes4677 2024-01-27 19:22|| 2024-01-27 19:22|| Front Page Top

#14

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-01-27 19:28|| 2024-01-27 19:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Actually a pres can serve 10. Remember that’s how many LBJ would’ve served of he’d run and won

Posted by Beavis 2024-01-27 20:44|| 2024-01-27 20:44|| Front Page Top

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