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Joinfortmill

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Mon Oct 21, 2024, 03:24 PM Oct 21

'What (Really) Happens If Trump Wins?' [View all]

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https://thecycle.substack.com/p/what-really-happens-if-trump-wins

'Like Hitler, Trump Has Made Clear His Plan is Dictatorship, Not Democracy
Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer '


'January 30th 1933 dawned cold and clear in Berlin as Adolph Hitler took his oath of office and promised Germans he would uphold the constitution. It would ultimately take him less than 30 days to dismantle it.

By March, Dachau concentration camp was opened with its inaugural prisoners: members of the Communist and Social Democrat parties and other prominent Hitler critics. including some members of the Reichstag which Hitler’s allies would join with the National Socialists to voluntarily dissolve to give Hitler near total power...

for average Germans the day that started with Hitler’s swearing in ended the same way as the day before it and after it. Jobs were worked, errands were run, dinners were cooked, people went to the movies, and life carried on with little interruption.

Within the year, regular Germans would be begin to curtail public criticism of Hitler and his Nazis, eventually codifying it with the “Law against Malicious Attacks on State and Party” in December 1933...At first they would do so in social settings. Later, they would do so in their own homes for fear that their own children, eventually conscripted into either the Hitler Youth or the League for German Girls, might denounce them...

All you need to end a democracy is a leader willing to suspend or end the Constitution and a supporting cast large enough to allow him to do it. Republicans have both.'

My words: Please read the entire article and then VOTE. We're gonna win this, people, but make no mistake, we're also dogging a bullet.


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