Donald Trump Wants To Be Dictator For Life

He's saying it loud, but the press is ignoring it.

Trump believes he is owed more than another term.

by Bob Cesca

WASHINGTON, DC – He confirmed it again. In normal times, you’d see banner headlines on every news website in America. But not now.

This week, Trump told us that he has no intention of leaving office after his would-be second term is over. He said to an Iowa rally crowd, “We have a good chance of saying for four years – have a lot to say about it – four years and beyond.”

Going back to 2020, Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that he deserves a re-do of his first term because of the Russia investigation, nonexistent spying on his campaign, and so on. In other words, Trump believes – or at least says that he deserves more than the two terms in office allowed by the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“We are going to win four more years,” Trump said at a Wisconsin rally back in 2020. “And then after that, we’ll go for another four years because they spied on my campaign. We should get a redo of four years.” 

Around the same time, he pledged to “negotiate” a third term. “And we’re gonna win four more years in the White House, and then after that negotiate because we’re probably – based on the way we were treated, we’re probably entitled to another four after that.”

There are myriad other examples from rallies since then. It’s one of his greatest hits, regularly repeated to the shrieking delight of his sucker disciples.

Granted, he once said he’ll limit himself to two terms, as though it was his sole prerogative and not a constitutional stricture on presidential power. But his ongoing words to his supporters, backed with actions after the 2020 election, including his coup to overthrow the election, confirm that his pledges to never leave office are real and not just red meat for the pro-dictatorship base.

Donald Trump intends to be president for life. 

He wants nothing more than to be America’s Vladimir Putin. He will exploit the awesome power of the presidency to make sure he remains president, and he intends to buttress that power with actions that will almost certainly guarantee he’ll be successful. 

For example, according to the conservative Project 2025, Trump plans to install loyalists throughout the federal bureaucracy, assuring there will be no one in the way who might upend his power grab. Upwards of 50,000 federal workers will be fired and replaced by goons of the MAGA agenda. In fact, the hiring and training process is already underway.

Likewise, Trump plans to strip the Department of Justice of its independence and move it directly under the control of the White House. This means federal law enforcement will become Trump’s personal police force, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service. By the way, it’s been speculated the U.S. Marshals would  be the law enforcement agency tasked with removing Trump from the White House at the end of his term, but not if U.S. Marshals take orders directly from Trump himself, while also being stacked with the aforementioned newly-hired MAGA goons. 

Of course, we don’t know exactly how a president, or specifically an ex-president, would be physically removed since it’s never happened before. But it appears that too many nearsighted voters are willing to take that chance because social media has convinced them that Joe Biden is too old and that the booming economy doesn’t exist (it does).

Instead of Joe Biden, who’s a decent, competent, and traditionally successful leader who’s more than worthy of a second term, these misguided voters could burden us all with a full blown dictator-for-life, thus ending democracy and establishing the United States as a neo-fascist autocracy, controlled by a mad man who has zero respect for the guardrails of our system; a mad man who’s repeatedly threatened the lives of public officials; a mad man who allowed a deadly virus to kill 400,000 Americans during his final year in office; a mad man who was found by a jury to have raped E. Jean Carroll; a mad man who will very likely be convicted of multiple felonies; a mad man who ordered his fanboys to invade and occupy Congress; a mad man who wants to nullify the immense sacrifices of men and women far braver than he’ll ever be – men and women who fought and died to protect us from the kind of dictatorship he wishes to impose.

Consequently, the Republican Party can no longer link itself with democracy or the Constitution. By elevating and presumptively nominating Trump a third time, the party is only paying lip-service to our national values and the rule of law while working feverishly to end our form of government as we know it, to be replaced by an authoritarian police state, controlled by the world’s most obvious and notorious con-man criminal.

This isn’t partisan hyperbole. It’s really going to happen if we don’t dominate the election.

I realize we’re supposed to pay attention to what he does and not what he says but, in this case, what he says is a colossal warning to anyone who cherishes democracy and the vast sacrifices made to preserve it. Pay attention and don’t let our fellow voters throw it all away because a TikTok video said so.

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Iowa Is A Wake Up Call For America

With Donald Trump’s dominant victory in Iowa, Republicans and Democrats are going to have to come to terms with some very unpleasant facts.

by Ben

At the beginning of 2016, the GOP was a hard right political party that existed primarily to enrich millionaires and billionaires. It was broadly, but not endemically racist, and was mostly controlled mostly by establishment figures and party apparatchiks. There had been a half hearted attempt at ethno-nationalism with Sarah Palin’s “hockey mom” movement in 2008, but the movement had largely fizzled out by the time President Obama was in his second term.

By the end of 2016 however, the GOP had transformed into a cowering mess of frightened children, bullied and beaten by an ethno-nationalistic demagogue. The party was not instinctively fascist, but the base they had abused and manipulated for decades finally turned on them and demanded it. The fascist takeover of the GOP was then cemented over the next four years with Donald Trump smashing through every political norm imaginable.

The election of Joe Biden in 2020 thwarted Trump’s fascist takeover of America, but unfortunately we appear to be back at square one again. With Trump’s commanding victory in the first GOP primary in Iowa, Republicans and Democrats are going to have to come to terms with some very unpleasant facts….

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