Is the GOP now the party of authoritarianism?

[Ravi]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

 

[Ravi]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

You mean things like forcing people to buy health insurance...or baking cakes?

 

[mudwhistle]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

What's autoritarianism?

 

[Ravi]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

What's autoritarianism?

LOL! I tried to fix it but couldn't.

Authoritarianism: Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms.

 

[Disgruntled_American]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

With Trump encouraging assaulting protesters, saying he wants to be able to bring charges to journalists, disallow ALL Muslims from entering the U.S., and his authoritarian nature, YES the GOP is now the party of anti-American and anti-constitution.

 

[Valerie]

the GOP is about to be taken over by a demagogue beast, true conservatives are hoping to reject him.

Against Trump

 

[mudwhistle]

You mean things like forcing people to buy health insurance...or baking cakes?

Or taking away people's freedom of speech, infringing on private gun ownership , jailing people for a video, taking over private businesses, enforcing only the laws you agree with?

 

[mudwhistle]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

What's autoritarianism?

LOL! I tried to fix it but couldn't.

Authoritarianism: Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms.

Click on thread tools at the top. You can edit the title from there.

 

[Disgruntled_American]

You mean things like forcing people to buy health insurance...or baking cakes?

Or taking away people's freedom of speech, infringing on private gun ownership , jailing people for a video, taking over private businesses, enforcing only the laws you agree with?

No one was jailed because of a video, they were jailed because they violated their parole.

And I just went to Home Depot, the mall, and many other places and low and behold they aren't taken over by the government. Imagine that.

 

[mudwhistle]

You mean things like forcing people to buy health insurance...or baking cakes?

Or taking away people's freedom of speech, infringing on private gun ownership , jailing people for a video, taking over private businesses, enforcing only the laws you agree with?

No one was jailed because of a video, they were jailed because they violated their parole.

And I just went to Home Depot, the mall, and many other places and low and behold they aren't taken over by the government. Imagine that.

Yeah......and I'm Rosie Fucking O'Donnell.

You also forgot GM and Chrysler.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Is the GOP now the party of autoritarianism?"

Yes.

The very nature of conservatism is to oppose change and dissent and compel conformity.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Is the GOP now the party of autoritarianism?

is that code speak for taking over a car making plant

the last one to do so was obama and the volt

big failure btw

 

[Valerie]

they've created a monster..

yesterday i heard sarah palin screeching in glee how "we found our revolutionary" in donald trump.

Too late, you sowed the seeds of your destruction years ago. Trump is your boogeyman in the flesh.

 

[Valerie]

Donald Trump Poses an Unprecedented Threat to American Democracy

a report circulated highlighting his 1990 interview with Playboy in which he praised the brutality of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. This is not the first time I had seen Trump praise dictators.


My previous view of Trump was as a kind of vaccine. The Republican Party relies on the covert mobilization of racial resentment and nationalism. Trump, as I saw it, was bringing into the open that which had been intentionally submerged. It seemed like a containable dose of disease, too small to take over its host, but large enough to set off a counterreaction of healthy blood cells. But the outbreak of violence this weekend suggests the disease may be spreading far wider than I believed, and infecting healthy elements of the body politic.

I remain convinced that Trump cannot win the presidency. But what I failed to account for was the possibility that his authoritarian style could degrade American politics even in defeat. There is a whiff in the air of the notion that the election will be settled in the streets — a poisonous idea that is unsafe in even the smallest doses.

Here is another factor I failed to predict. Trump, as I’ve noted, lies substantively within the modern Republican racial political tradition that seamlessly incorporates such things as the Willie Horton ads and the uncontroversial service of Louisiana representative Steve Scalise, who once called himself “David Duke without the baggage,” as House Majority Whip. But Trump’s amplification of white racial resentment matters. His campaign has dominated the national discourse. Millions of Americans who have never heard of Steve Scalise are seized with mortal terror of Trump, whose ubiquity in campaign coverage makes him seem larger and more unstoppable than he is. And terror is corrosive.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/trump-poses-unprecedented-threat-to-democracy.html

 

[Valerie]

Of course it is Trump who has let loose the wave of fear rippling out from the campaign. And it is Trump who has singled out African-Americans peacefully attending his speeches for mistreatment, and Trump who has glorified sucker-punching attacks on nonviolent protesters. This is part of the effectiveness of authoritarian politics. The perception that Trump poses a threat to democracy legitimizes undemocratic responses — if you believe you are faced with the rise of an American Mussolini, why let liberal norms hold you back? The anti-Trumpian glory falls not upon the normal, boring practitioners of liberal politics — Hillary Clinton with her earnest speeches about universal pre-K and stronger financial regulation — but the street fighters who will muster against Trump the kind of response he appears to require. Just the other day, a man charged Trump as he spoke, and came disturbingly close to reaching him. More of this seems likely to follow, and it can spread from Trump’s rallies to those of other candidates.

A huge majority of the public finds Trump repellent. Some of his current unpopularity is the soft opposition of Republican voters who are currently listening to anti-Trump messaging from party sources and would return to the fold if he wins the nomination. But there is simply no evidence that the country that elected Barack Obama twice, and which is growing steadily more diverse, stands any likelihood of electing Trump. He can and must be defeated through democratic means. He is spreading poisons throughout the system that could linger beyond his defeat. Anybody who cares about the health of American democracy should hope for its end as swiftly as possible.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/trump-poses-unprecedented-threat-to-democracy.html

 

[Campbell]

Perhaps they have been all along, but electing Trump is certainly sending a message that the GOP is anti-constitution and American values.

Can you imagine what the founders would have to say about Trump?

I think beheading might be acceptable. I've never seen such an idiot running for the presidency........'course I'm just 81.

 

[Disgruntled_American]

You mean things like forcing people to buy health insurance...or baking cakes?

Or taking away people's freedom of speech, infringing on private gun ownership , jailing people for a video, taking over private businesses, enforcing only the laws you agree with?

No one was jailed because of a video, they were jailed because they violated their parole.

And I just went to Home Depot, the mall, and many other places and low and behold they aren't taken over by the government. Imagine that.

Yeah......and I'm Rosie Fucking O'Donnell.

You also forgot GM and Chrysler.

How ya doing Rosie!

So bailing out two companies is the equivalent of the government taking over business to ya huh? Wow. I guess you thought when Bush bailed out the banks he was "taking over business" as well huh?

Interesting that bailing out a company to you is "taking over" lol.

 

[Valerie]

On foreign policy, Trump is a nationalist at sea. Sometimes he wants to let Russia fight ISIS, and at others he wants to “bomb the sh**” out of it. He is fixated on stealing Iraq’s oil and casually suggested a few weeks ago a war crime — killing terrorists’ families — as a tactic in the war on terror. For someone who wants to project strength, he has an astonishing weakness for flattery, falling for Vladimir Putin after a few coquettish bats of the eyelashes from the Russian thug. All in all, Trump knows approximately as much about national security as he does about the nuclear triad — which is to say, almost nothing.

Indeed, Trump’s politics are those of an averagely well-informed businessman: Washington is full of problems; I am a problem-solver; let me at them. But if you have no familiarity with the relevant details and the levers of power, and no clear principles to guide you, you will, like most tenderfeet, get rolled. Especially if you are, at least by all outward indications, the most poll-obsessed politician in all of American history. Trump has shown no interest in limiting government, in reforming entitlements, or in the Constitution.

Against Trump

 

[Thunderbird]

Astonishing!

Soros and Marxists organize mobs to shut down free speech - and you condemn Trump??

These protesters are just Soros' puppets: Soros Funded Moveon.org Takes Credit for Violence in Chicago - Tea Party News

Hatred of free speech: