Rachel Maddow said that the Republican Party is the only institution that can pull the plug on Trump, which is why the former president is testing them by invoking Hitler.
  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    49·
    10 months ago

    Here’s what I could pull off that dumpster fire of a website:

    RACHEL MADDOW PERFECTLY EXPLAINS HOW TRUMP IS TRYING TO BREAK THE GOP

    •   JASON EASLEY DONALD TRUMP, TOP NEWS MON, NOV 13TH, 2023

    Rachel Maddow said that the Republican Party is the only institution that can pull the plug on Trump, which is why the former president is testing them by invoking Hitler.

    Maddow said:

There’s no bar association to yank his law license. There’s no radio or TV network to say we’re not hosting your show anymore. What is the institution here that decides this is on their patch? What is the institution here that decides that you can never espouse things like this and also be part of them and also represent them?

    There is only one. It’s his political party. Which when he is running to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States, means he’s contending to lead that party. While promising he will build camps it hold millions of people in this country and use the military against American civilians at home in America and his political opponents are vermin who will be crushed and exterminated. That is the test here. That — he’s not running as an independent. He’s not running as the trump for president candidate.

    He’s running as the Republican, he wants to be the Republican nominee for president. So that is the only institution, the institution that is be tested here. This is him testing the political party that he says he’s going to lead. Testing them now. One year out from the election, to see what they will tolerate as an institution. Which means every single member of that party will now have to answer whether this is who they are, whether this is hot they stand for, whether this is the cause of their party.

    We know from history that a country under threat does not stand up for itself with some kind of civic objection that just redounds to the country at large. In real life, a country under threat stands up for itself when the institutions that make up the civic and political life of the country stand up and say what they’re for and what they can no longer stand for.

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    Rachel Maddow was correct. At this point, Trump is intentionally invoking Hitler and Mussolini because he is testing the Republican Party to see if it will go all in with him on his fascism. Trump is trying to find out if he can transform one of the two major political parties in the United States into a fascist movement. In the fall of 2024, Democrats could stop Trump and his fascists from taking over the country, but there is a very specific reason for why Trump is using this rhetoric now.

    Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. The next step is to turn the former party of Lincoln and Reagan into an anti-democracy authoritarian movement,

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      15·
      10 months ago

      The next step is to turn the former party of Lincoln and Reagan into an anti-democracy authoritarian movement

      It’s abhorrent that the author/editor thinks Lincoln and Reagan are at all comparable.

    • Dagwood222
      71·
      10 months ago

      Thanks for the recap.

      I’ve been hoping for a GOP/MAGoo war since 2015. Seeing Santorum talk about limiting democracy after the GOP debacle in Ohio it’s obvious that Donnie isn’t the only one ready to go full fascist.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Been saying for years that the man is too dumb, senile and self-centered to have some master plan. He’s just rolling with what works.

      This has greatly shifted my thinking.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        5·
        10 months ago

        Trump has been manipulating people his entire life, his narcissistic personality has made him do it for personal gain at every opportunity, which his position as a billionaire has created an extreme amount of. He has probably done it also just for fun, or to feel powerful without any other gains.
        At his age and position, that’s a massive amount of experience in manipulation, which he is 100% prepared to ruthlessly use as much to his advantage as he can.
        The weird thing is why so many can’t see through it, when it’s so obvious to what I would call “normal” people?
        He behaves like an uncontrolled toddler, he constantly contradicts himself, he is so very obviously lying, and he is obviously evil both in many personal relations, the way he practices his business, and his political observations.

          • Buffalox@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            Yes that’s very well written, and has many very good points. I can even understand the attraction of “the old values”, except the racism homophobia and religious fanaticism.
            If the more important old values are considered to be integrity honesty decency and tolerance, you get a completely different picture.

            Google David Letterman’s sex scandals. But it’s okay, because they’re on our side,

            No it’s OK because he never claimed to live by Christian standards, and there is nothing intrinsically immoral about it, and he is not an elected official I voted on because of his values.
            Trump on the other hand, is followed by people who claim Christian values, and Trump is by some even claimed to be the second coming of Christ.
            But in reality he is a narcissist the exact opposite of being humble as the Bible teaches. He has been married twice and commits adultery, he lies constantly, and probably commits at least one deadly sin per day according to the bible.
            The problem is the disconnect between the values these country folk claim to want to protect, and their actions that are actually directly contrary to that.

  • StinkyDave@lemmy.world
    30·
    10 months ago

    I wanted to search for the video of her explaining it ( if there is one ), because the site linked is fucking garbage. But I don’t want to be bombarded by political ads because I Googled “Rachel Maddow Trump GOP”. So I guess I’m not learning anything today.

  • Dagwood222
    161·
    10 months ago

    There’s a simpler explanation. The MAGoos are like meth heads; they need more and more red meat to stay satisfied. Children who read a Superman comic in 1940 were amazed when the hero could smash a steam locomotive. Today, Supes has to throw that train past Jupiter. Same fantasy, just more special effects.