And then he started violating the constitution repeatedly.
Discussion
heres one of those retards now! 😂
What is your favorite thing about Trump?
i dont really like him.
Can you name a president in the last 40 years that hasn't?
the thing that's hard to watch is some folks suddenly spouting stuff like "Hey, that's unconstitutional!" or "wait - that violates the first amendment" as if any of that is new
It's not new or sudden. Protesting the government is full-time, life-long duty. This particular administration just happens to be especially brazen and violent about it. Arresting students for writing articles, human tracking people without due process. It's physically scary and more reminiscent of historical fascism than any previous criminal-in-chief.
I don't disagree about these particular violations - they're very disturbing - but I don't find them more brazen or violent. Using the power of the federal government to force Americans to take a medical intervention was also physically scary, and suppressing dissent about it - not to mention all the lockdown bs - was blatantly unconstitutional. Though the rhetoric was not racist or classist, the effect absolutely was, and it was fascist in the original definition of that word - the merging of corporate and state power.
It seems to me that authoritarianism just takes different forms - and uses different rationales - in each administration.