Donald Trump Is the Greatest Threat to American Democracy in Our Lifetime

[KamaAina]

https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-the-greatest-threat-to-american-democracy-in-our-lifetime/

Donald Trump’s tweets yesterday about “the millions of people who voted illegally in 2016” and “serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California” cannot be dismissed as just another Twitter meltdown from the president-elect. (It goes without saying that Trump’s claims are categorically false.)

His conspiracy theories about rigged elections during the presidential race were meant to delegitimize the possibility of Hillary Clinton’s election. But now that he’s won the election we have to take his words far more seriously. He will appoint the next attorney general, at least one Supreme Court justice and thousands of positions in the federal government. His lies about the prevalence of voter fraud are a prelude to the massive voter suppression Trump and his allies in the GOP are about to unleash....

We can already glimpse how a Trump administration will undermine voting rights, based on the people he nominated to top positions, those he has advising him, and his own statements.

His pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, wrongly prosecuted black civil-rights activists for voter fraud in Alabama in the 1980s, called the Voting Rights Act “a piece of intrusive legislation,” and praised the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, saying that “if you go to Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, people aren’t being denied the vote because of the color of their skin.”

Is it fascism yet?

[CincyDem]

1. My fear is that by the time these asshats are done, we'll be wishing it was only fascism. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R

For later reading.

[spanone]

3. we have a lying president. blatantly lying president.

[uponit7771]

4. The Putin ties are overt

[Fast Walker 52]

5. no doubt about it, and it's been clear for a while

when will everyone else realize it? And what the fuck GOP? Are you that spineless to fascism?

[BigDemVoter]

6. NEVER in my wildest nightmare did I expect to see such

a total, complete, and unapologetic piece of SHIT in my life. And I didn't say . . . ."in the White House." No. . . What I mean is that I cannot BELIEVE such a narcissistic, selfish, spiteful, thin-skinned and generally unpleasant person--even EXISTS.

Not only did America bend over, she bent over for the lowest of the very, very low. When Michelle Obama said she and her family "went high", America went as low, low, low as she could ever possibly go. We have generations behind us who will pay for this HORSESHIT we are leaving them. By "we", I mean the collective "we", as all of us here on DU at least did the right thing & voted.




We will leave debt for generations.
Climate change is coming and much faster than it had to.
Our economy will be fucked.
Our "entitlements" -- ha--they are already on the line
Banks? Yeah--no regulations on them

And the fucking job-- the reality TV star, the fat, orange-headed PIG who "won" this election by going lower than ANY candidate in US history-- I fail to think of ANY candidate in ANY western democracy who ever behaved as he has. . . .

And yes . . . America elected him. We really must get rid of electoral college. I never thought I would say that.

[roamer65]

7. America elected Hillary Clinton.

An obsolete, derelict system of past times selected Dump. The EC.

She is up by nearly 2.4M votes right now, nearing 65M total.

[BigDemVoter]

8. Excellent point.

Thank you for that.

[KamaAina]

9. America elected Al Gore, too.

Fat lot of good that did us.

[Paladin]

10. K&R.