A Trump Win Would Bring Both Monarchy and Aristocracy to the US

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A Trump Win Would Bring Both Monarchy and Aristocracy to the US, by Thom Hartmann, Common Dreams, Oct. 8, 2024. Ed. - Long Read
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- Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been found by a jury of his peers to have raped a woman. - He’s a traitor who’s embraced foreign dictators, particularly Russian President Vladimir Putin, who just sentenced an American to prison while actively bombing a democratic American ally. - He’s a convicted criminal who stole money from a children’s cancer charity & scammed students out of millions of dollars.
- He tried to end American democracy by force.
- Like Hitler justifying the Holocaust, he claimed some Americans are genetically inferior.

And he’s a whisker away from the presidency.

How is this even possible? You can trace it all back to dark money.

Ever since Citizens United (2010) legalized literally unlimited contributions to the new category of political action committees it created (SuperPACs), just in the 15 months from Jan. 2023 to April of 2024 over $8.6 billion was raised for this year’s federal campaigns with over 65% of that money—$5.6 billion—running through PACs. 9 years ago, former President Jimmy Carter said on my program:
"It [Citizens United] violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president… So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election’s over."

He's right. But it’s even worse than Carter imagined. Dark money—billions from the morbidly rich and giant corporations, often untraceable—has taken over the entire GOP and is the main weapon being used today against members of the Democratic Party. It’s also badly distorting public policy. For example, remember when Trump was outspoken about banning TikTok from America because the app is owned by Chinese billionaires beholden to that nation’s communist government? In Aug. of 2020, he signed an Executive Order that said, in part: This data collection [by TikTok] threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information—potentially allowing China to track the locations of federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage.

.. Political ad spending is projected to reach new heights by the end of the 2024 election cycle, eclipsing $10 billion in what would amount to the most expensive 2 years in political history.. While Thomas Jefferson was still the U.S. envoy to France and living in Paris, just after the Constitution had been written but a year before it would be ratified, John Adams wrote him on Dec. 6, 1778 arguing that Jefferson’s fear of a strongman president wasn’t as big a concern as Adams’ fear of rich people corrupting American politics:...
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https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-win-monarchy-aristocracy

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1. 'Actual Nazi sentiments': Review of recent Trump rallies unearths two alarming trends

TFG is going full NAZI.

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/hitler-and-the-nazis-trump/

Former President Donald Trump has ramped up his campaign rhetoric by taking it back to a terrifying time in global history — 1930s Germany, experts told Politico Saturday.

Trump's claims that migrants have "bad genes" and will "cut your throat" mimic the lies and feed on the prejudices that scholars say Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler exploited ahead of the Holocaust.

“What is so jarring to me is these are not just Nazi-like statements," said Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute. "These are actual Nazi sentiments.".....

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University, told Politico she believed this was just the next step of a process that began when Trump mounted his first presidential campaign nearly a decade ago.

“He’s been taking Americans and his followers on a journey since really 2015...instilling hatred in a group, and then escalating,” said Ben-Ghiat.

“Now [immigrants are] animals who are going to kill us or eat our pets or eat us,” she continued. “That’s how you get people to feel that whatever is done to them, as in mass deportation, rounding them up, putting them in camps, is OK.”

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6. Bad genes, criminals, aliens, unhumans, all the debasing terms to incite

bigotry, discrimination, incarceration, violence, persecution and pogroms. Hell.

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2. Let's not leave out Feudalism

and the inevitable religious wars that come with pandering to theocracy advocates.

After they get the power, Protestant Fundamentalists will want to purge the Catholic conservatives and the Jews.

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5. Yes, religious power conflicts, thanks for adding the theocracy part.

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3. Not true,it would bring a fascist dictator.

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4. Yes fascism. Maybe a hybrid leader with many grandiose elements. Ex

an authoritarian president, monarch or caudillo as in Franco and other Latin American dictators and even ancient Roman emperors. Add in prominent hallmarks of despotic tyranical power - pomp, ceremony, gold braid and bling, minus military experience in DT's case. Megalomania.