Watching "Rise of the Nazis" on PBS
So fascinating how the Nazis used the Reichstag fire as the excuse to round up the communist opposition, to give the Nazis (then the party in power) the power to put troops in the streets of Berlin. They were looking for an excuse to arrest the opposition, and the attack on their capitol building gave them the excuse.
They talk about how the Nazi leadership had an inverted moral compass, in that they firmly believed they were doing the morally good thing in getting rid of the dangerous communists. They used the German justice system to arrest their political opponents, and felt 100% justified in doing so.
Fire chief, who made statements that Nazis were involved in the fire, was arrested later for "abuse of office" and died of strangulation in prison.
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We were this close...this close...to Reichstag Inferno Parte Dos with Trump.
Rumor has it that the Clintons had the Lolita Express fueled up and ready to go if it started happening. No massages on the New Lolita Express unless Hills requests it from Bill.
His threat to democracy was/is much more like Putin than Hitler
Undermining, bit by bit, the institutions and norms that check the power of the executive, rather than a messy, obvious coup.
That’s the 21-century authoritarian power grab.
It also needs accomplices willing to let it happen. And cheering. Because Mexicans and zygotes and the lib media or whatever.
Yep, I figured. By a wide margin, the administration over the past 40 years that sought to expand...
the power of the executive branch at the expense of the others was the Dubya Administration. Not even close. How did Trump undermine Congress and the Supreme Court?
I've said this so many times, but I don't care: I never imagined I would live to see liberals become the ones initiating a new Red Scare and extolling the virtues of the CIA and FBI and rattling the sabers, nudging us toward conflicts with Russia. It wasn't even a decade ago when you guys were laughing at Romney's description of Russia as the greatest threat. It's unbelievable, and you got precisely what you deserved in the end with your BS collusion tales. You'll never admit anything. You're like the clowns who kept the WMDs in Iraq talk going years after sane people had moved onward.
Oh please. Dubya expanded executive power. But not like Trump.
To answer your question: Trump told his officials not to cooperate with congressional inquiries. It was amazing. Impeachable.
He attacked judges. Tell me when Dubya did that. Or undermined the Fourth Estate. Daily.
Anything that might have checked his power, he attacked.
The institutions held, but barely - thanks to a few brave individuals in Georgia and Arizona who refused to overturn an election, which cost them their jobs (or soon will) - and next time, who knows.
You don’t remember when dubya sent a mob to the Capitol to interrupt the certification of a prez
election?
Looney tunes.
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All in nutcase, well done.
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And here’s your Trump National Security Advisor hero
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Link: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/31/politics/michael-flynn-qanon/index.html
Good grief, man. Do you hear yourself? Look what this craziness is allowing you to rationailze.
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Don’t forget that they have also become advocates of silencing free speech.
I love the pithy, misapplied rationalization as well, “You can’t yell fire in a movie theatre”.
Ironically, they are removing Trump’s greatest flaw before the next election. I’m guess that they will reinstate him once they figure this out, it they aren’t very smart, so it could take a while.
None of that happened, there was zero threat to democracy during the Trump Admin.
Didn’t hear a peep from you about Biden’s exec. actions.
Don't you remember the ketchup with well done steaks?
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Enablers like you.
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That’s what you’re down to?
Pathetic but not surprising.
He's right, don't you remember the mean tweets? He's essentially Stalin when you put that into
consideration
The bad guys have always believed they were the good guys throughout history.
The Nazis, Soviets, Islamic Terrorists, et al. Ditto the modern unhinged left.
All thought their cause was so righteous that it justified their violent, illegal, immoral actions.
no, hitler knew he was wrong
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You forgot the Wolverines.
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