The chaos and lawlessness of the first term could pale in comparison to what comes next.
    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
      17·
      2 months ago

      Read the article…

      But if Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris this November, America will encounter a Trump unbound, a man whose darkest impulses will not be checked by “adults in the room” — ­creating potentially catastrophic consequences for the American experiment. “This election is about whether or not we remain a democratic society or we move to authoritarianism,” Sen. Bernie Sanders tells Rolling Stone, insisting that Trump “does not believe in the basic tenets and foundations of American democracy.”

      The safeguards that kept Trump in check during his first term have collapsed — starting with the MAGA-fication of the Republican Party. “We know from the first administration that Trump was an amateur and lots of people stopped his most radical actions,” says Jason Stanley, a Yale professor and author of How Fascism Works. He underscores that Trump’s darkest ambitions were present from the beginning — from the Muslim ban to the coup attempt of Jan. 6. “The only thing that stopped him from being a full-on dictator was other people,” Stanley says. “We know that that’s not going to happen anymore.” Read the article…

    • warbond@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      I thought it was a good article, why do you think it (or Rolling Stone, for that matter) is propaganda?

    • CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      There’s a woman I knew in high school (and still keep in touch) who asked me just the other day what it was like in Canada and she and her husband will consider moving here if he is elected.

      (I am American and married a Canadian and moved here)

      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        Canada is sort of on the list, they still seem somewhat functional these days and I could be close to my parents… otherwise it’s Nordic countries or any place in Europe. I’m lucky in that I have a marketable engineering degree, I likely wouldn’t be able to get any kind of visa or citizenship in industrialized countries otherwise.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I have coworkers that went to New Zealand and Sweden. Sweden is f****** amazing but the culture and language barriers were too much.