Is Trump preparing for an actual Takeover?

[Scholar]

 

A lot of things Trump has done over the past months have given me the impression that he could be preparing an actual takeover of the entire government within his term. He has normalized military deployment within the country, he has created a mass dehumanization and deportation apparatus that would would be satirical if it wasn't reality and he seems to be preparing for actual wars with other countries which could give him the ability to call for martial law or whatever else he has planned.

 

It still doesn't seem realistic to me that he would actually attempt this given the severe risk it entails, but it is mindblowing to me that all of these things are happening and people seem to be only mildly concerned about it. What is also concerning is that a large portion of the country would support him. What would it be, 10-20% of the country? That seems enough to actually establish a new political regime.

The fact that he could try and potentially be successful itself is concerning.

[Leo Gura]

Of course!

He will not leave office peacefully. He will attempt to hijack the whole government. They are working on it every day.

He will not hold back. And as the left pushes back more, he will double-down in his power-grab.

America is going full MAGA dictatorship. MAGA is too stupid not to try it.

Key insight: MAGA is too stupid to not create a dictatorship. They cannot help themselves.

Edited Tuesday at 10:30 PM by Leo Gura

[Scholar]

Well, at least we can say we live in interesting times.

[Hardkill]

9 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Of course!

He will not leave office peacefully. He will attempt to hijack the whole government. They are working on it every day.

He will not hold back. And as the left pushes back more, he will double-down in his power-grab.

America is going full MAGA dictatorship. MAGA is too stupid not to try it.

Key insight: MAGA is too stupid to not create a dictatorship. They cannot help themselves.

As someone once told me before: Canada is looking real good now.

[oldhandle]

25 minutes ago, Hardkill said:

As someone once told me before: Canada is looking real good now.

Bro, Canada will be forcibly taken by America eventually as the climate heats up. Way more people way more guns.

Best to just get off the continent like I did.

[Elliott]

I don't see it. Trumps military use is to backup ICE, because immigration enforcement numbers are so low. His big thing first term was immigration "the wall", deportations are his attempt to accomplish something.

Democrats are kicking ICEs ass on the street, the national guard is a last ditch effort against immigration.

[Apparition of Jack]

15 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Of course!

He will not leave office peacefully. He will attempt to hijack the whole government. They are working on it every day.

He will not hold back. And as the left pushes back more, he will double-down in his power-grab.

America is going full MAGA dictatorship. MAGA is too stupid not to try it.

Key insight: MAGA is too stupid to not create a dictatorship. They cannot help themselves.

So what do we do to prevent this?
 

You seem to big on pointing out the problems we face, Leo, but not so big on providing solutions…

Edited Wednesday at 01:36 PM by Apparition of Jack

[Jodistrict]

Trump is losing the popular support he would need to take over.  He promised prices would go down, but his tariffs are just increasing inflation.   His support base, MAGA, is maxed out and unlikely to grow any larger.   Then the drunken clown Pete Hegseth literally orders every general into a room and demeans them in front of the world and they respond with no applause.  Are these guys going to participate in a coup?    Ralph Nader believes that if Trump loses enough of the public support, he could be impeached, even by a Republican congress, since their choice would be to go down with him or get rid of him.   Also Nader says there are over 100 impeachment charges against Trump, some of them criminal, in contrast to Nixon, who had only two charges against him.

[Lyubov]

He already tried on Jan 6th 2021, you didn’t think he would try again? 

[enchanted]

On 01/10/2025 at 9:35 AM, Apparition of Jack said:

So what do we do to prevent this?
 

You seem to big on pointing out the problems we face, Leo, but not so big on providing solutions…

Education is how you prevent it.  I would say Leo is doing a good job educating the public.

 

[enchanted]

@Scholar yes absolutely. He is going from Zero to Hungary very quickly. 

Why do you think Viktor Orban (authoritarian leader of Hungary) visited Trump in person at Mar-A-Lago?