Why are Trumpeters blind to Donalds Authoritarian Ways?

@Doomflower 😱

@SW-User Profound. 🤔

@RippinKlouds Obama is gone. Let it go.

@CaptainCanadia You're making a fool of yourself and should just shut up. You don't know what authoritarian means or how it works.

@JenniferB Now you're basically doing "I know you are but what am I". Again and again you refuse to address the substance of the issue because your argument is nonsense. If the only definition of authoritarian was "American President who violates the constitution" that'd probably involve most Presidents at some point.

[b]Authoritarianism is a form of government[/b], and authoritarian is somebody who idealizes that form of government. It means a strong, unquestioned leader with few if any checks and balances, and limited political freedoms. Trump is an authoritarian for the following reasons:

- Hostile to any check on his power - particularly the press and the judiciary as well as the civil service, Congress, the FBI and CIA, etc...
- Is contemptuous of the law and sees it as an unnecessary or unfair constraint on his power
- Prizes loyalty over any other trait and promotes his family above a million other people because of that
- Defines himself as a necessity to combat societal problems - he has countless "Only I can..." statements
- Openly lies to discredit his enemies (Obama was wiretapping me)

Like, the list goes on. Trump's ideal America would be one where his word is law, the press is controlled by him and only positive (Trump TV, his daily serving of positive press about him), and where his enemies were silent and powerless. That's authoritarian.

@CaptainCanadia If he was contemptuous of the law, wanted to be a dictator, yada, yada, yada, why did he defer to Congress on DACA? Why didn't Obama? Why did he strike a deal with Democrats (of all people) to get the debt ceiling/hurricane relief passed? He knows he only possesses the power the Constitution gives him, whereas the real authoritarian, Obama, bragged about his pen and his phone. Your head is stuck so far up your ass that you and most liberals cannot wrap yourselves around simple truths. You'd rather disparage a man you hate because you lost the election. And btw, the press deserves the contempt it gets. It is the most dishonest institution in America. An authoritarian would have moved to shut the press down. Last time I checked, the left-wing press is still alive and (not) well.

@MasterLee I blame her for lighting the spark, I blame Trump for throwing gasoline on that fire for YEARS, and I blame every racist idiot asshole who believed that stupid bullshit.

@CaptainCanadia funny how libs still cling to calling any political foe racist . Hypocrite chickenshit assholes pretty much describes the libtard party .

@TexChik I'm not a liberal. And I didn't say everyone who disagrees with me is racist, I said birtherism is racist. Racism is a thing that exists. It's not just a magic word you make up to win arguments.

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