Rachel Maddow defined that Trump is utilizing the language of dictators as a approach of undermining democracy by making folks suppose that they want a strongman as a substitute of democracy.
Maddow mentioned:
It’s not only a dangerous and harmful factor he’s doing that. You’ll be able to cease him from doing by stating that it’s dangerous and harmful. This type of rhetoric attempting to show People not simply in opposition to one another, however to the concept some, some folks amongst us are so harmful that they should be exterminated, that some threats to us justify terminating the structure that justify being a dictator if just for a day.
That is the kind of factor that has a political level. It’s designed to make you consider {that a} democratic system with checks and balances and the constraint of the rule of legislation and elections the place persons are voted out generally, and divided energy inside authorities. These issues are less than stopping these horrible evils that threaten us, the horrible menace that some folks amongst us pose to the remainder of us. These things is tactically environment friendly.
It’s designed to make us suppose that we’d like a robust man. We’d like a troublesome man. We don’t want a authorized system and all its constraints. We don’t want a courtroom system. We don’t really want a political course of. We don’t want politicians. We don’t want Congress, we’d like power will motion, revenge, damaged guidelines, perhaps even violence. These statements will not be simply presupposed to shock you, they’re presupposed to work on you to make you consider we’d like one thing new and excessive to take care of our horrible issues. If just for a short time, perhaps, perhaps only a short-term dictatorship. And these techniques have a horrible historical past of working very well in different international locations. And sure, right here in our previous.
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Trump isn’t utilizing the rhetoric of dictators to get an increase out of individuals or to get consideration. He’s utilizing this language as a tactic to radicalize sufficient People in opposition to democracy in order that he can win the election and return to the White Home.
Donald Trump solely is aware of one strategy to observe politics, and that’s via concern. Trump has to maintain folks afraid in order that he can play the position of the one that alone can repair all the things.
As Sarah Jones identified whereas discussing Trump’s rhetoric, the previous president is trying to normalize the language of fascism:
The media has though not everybody, has normalized this. They need to have actually been calling this out when he referred to as folks vermin. Why does a frontrunner wish to dehumanize massive sections of the inhabitants? It’s since you assault democracy by attacking anybody who helps it.” pic.twitter.com/BW1kOJUeT3
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 18, 2023
It’s all part of a calculated technique of escalation that’s designed to destroy democracy and return Trump to energy.
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