Donald Trump’s extreme rhetoric reminiscent of Nazi propaganda and his penchant for siding with America’s adversaries and autocrats pose a unique challenge to his Republican opponents and, ultimately, US voters.
The ex-president, who has a good chance of being the next commander in chief, warned over the weekend that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the United States. And he parroted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to discredit American democracy in his latest craven genuflection to the ex-KGB officer, who’s been accused of war crimes.
Trump’s comments on Saturday, at a rally in the first-in-the-nation GOP primary state of New Hampshire, are contrary to America’s founding values and political traditions. They are the latest sign that Trump, who sought to overturn the will of the voters after the 2020 election, would act in an even more extreme fashion in a second White House term. His rhetoric is also likely to play into the central premise of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign – that he’s the only option to thwart a return to power by an ex-president who could destroy US democracy. It is not yet, however, helping the incumbent in polls that show him trailing Trump in vital swing states.
The headline is unhinged.
I say this as someone who doesn’t support or vote for either of the major two parties
If you are American, you are part of the problem.
If 100% of the population showed up to vote, we would have gotten Al Gore and been on a much better path globally than we are now.
I was too young to vote that election but I went with my mom and Grandma that year, and I’m the reason my grandma didn’t accidentally vote Pat Buchanan on her poorly designed Florida ballot that year. I did my part!
Maybe AL Gore should’ve run a better campaign? Maybe the DNC shouldn’t have disillusioned its voter base so much that they wouldn’t have voted for Nader?
Ppl complain so much about voters but not the system. And when they do complain about the system they refuse to vote for candidates who actually campaign about changing it because, "they probably won’t win. "
much of the emphasis is put on the citizens voting on election day but what is far more important is the process used to select the candidates. By the time the citizens get a say it’s too late. Every election it’s one faction of the elite versus the other.
There’s never an option for working class people on the ballot (especially in a general election). This applies to the entirety of the duopoly.
It’s very obviously scare mongering propaganda, and it’s working exactly as intended.