{"id":12360,"date":"2023-12-06T15:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12360"},"modified":"2023-12-06T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:42:05","slug":"when-trump-tells-you-hes-an-authoritarian-believe-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12360","title":{"rendered":"When Trump tells you he\u2019s an authoritarian, believe him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Perhaps the clearest sign came in a speech on Veterans Day where he vowed to \u201croot out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections.\u201d Calling one\u2019s opponents subhuman and vowing aggressive action against them is a hallmark of classical fascist rhetoric, so much so that the Washington Post\u2019s headline \u2014 on a news article, not an opinion piece \u2014 described it as \u201cechoing dictators Hitler [and] Mussolini.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re not wrong: Anyone familiar with Nazi propaganda<\/a> can tell you that it commonly dehumanized Jews by describing us as rats or diseases. Trump has used such language more than once: Just last month, he claimed immigrants were \u201cpoisoning the blood of our country<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This incendiary language is backed by an incendiary policy agenda<\/a>. Trump and his team have a series of proposals<\/a> to crack down on dissent, including by remaking the Justice Department into a tool for jailing his enemies and sending troops to suppress protests. They aim to launch mass anti-immigrant raids and detain the people he rounds up in camps<\/a>. They have extensive plans to replace as many as 50,000 career civil servants with ideologues and toadies<\/a>, putting people ready and willing to undermine the rule of law in key positions to act on Trump\u2019s dubious orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given Trump\u2019s track record, we should take these threats seriously. Let\u2019s not forget that many thought<\/a> it was unthinkable that Trump would attempt a kind of coup after the 2020 election<\/a>. We now know that\u2019s exactly what happened<\/a>, up to and including inciting an actual riot on January 6<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2023\/11\/14\/23958866\/trump-vermin-authoritarian-democracy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Perhaps the clearest sign came in a speech on Veterans Day where he vowed to \u201croot out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections.\u201d Calling one\u2019s opponents subhuman and vowing aggressive action against them is a hallmark of classical fascist rhetoric, so much so that the Washington Post\u2019s headline \u2014 on a news article, not an opinion piece \u2014 described it as \u201cechoing dictators Hitler [and] Mussolini.\u201d
\nThey\u2019re not wrong: Anyone familiar with Nazi propaganda can tell you that it commonly dehumanized Jews by describing us as rats or diseases. Trump has used such language more than once: Just last month, he claimed immigrants were \u201cpoisoning the blood of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

This incendiary language is backed by an incendiary policy agenda. Trump and his team have a series of proposals to crack down on dissent, including by remaking the Justice Department into a tool for jailing his enemies and sending troops to suppress protests. They aim to launch mass anti-immigrant raids and detain the people he rounds up in camps. They have extensive plans to replace as many as 50,000 career civil servants with ideologues and toadies, putting people ready and willing to undermine the rule of law in key positions to act on Trump\u2019s dubious orders.<\/p>\n

Given Trump\u2019s track record, we should take these threats seriously. Let\u2019s not forget that many thought it was unthinkable that Trump would attempt a kind of coup after the 2020 election. We now know that\u2019s exactly what happened, up to and including inciting an actual riot on January 6.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2023\/11\/14\/23958866\/trump-vermin-authoritarian-democracy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,431,660,221,170],"class_list":["post-12360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12361,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions\/12361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}