The President’s Police State | Trump is delivering the authoritarian government his party once warned about.

a year ago by silence7 to c/politics

Trump is delivering the authoritarian government his party once warned about.
jjjalljs 61 points a year ago

For years, prominent voices on the right argued that Democrats were enacting a police state. They labeled everything—a report on homegrown extremism, IRS investigations into nonprofits—a sign of impending authoritarianism.

Everything from the right is projection.

They are bad, dishonest , broken, people.

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6stringringer 14 points a year ago

Every projection is a confession.

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NeptuneOrbit 12 points a year ago

That's what a projection is.

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marsza 48 points a year ago

Your guns are next

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errer 16 points a year ago

Just the “liberal” guns, at first…

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Formfiller 5 points a year ago

How are they going to justify that?

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LifeInMultipleChoice 14 points a year ago

If someone voices something different than what they want, they label them as communist extremists and create a fake group name like antifa to which they claim they were apart of. Which they already labeled antifa as a terrorist organization, thus giving them the ability to prosecute with no way to prove someone isn't in antifa, as the group doesn't really even exist unless it's 1930s Germany. Whether or not they end up being able prove your guilty, remember Trump during his first term stated he believed in taking away the guns first, and then doing the investigation. Mike Pence had to walk him back on that because it would be unconstitutional.

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Formfiller 6 points a year ago

To be fair it doesn’t seem that far from 1930s Germany

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Revan343 7 points a year ago

Call them unAmerican and take their guns; if they complain, throw them in Alligator Auschwitz

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Viking_Hippie 7 points a year ago

According to their fascist dogma, dissent is inherently treasonous, so they won't need any further justification.

Also, Wilhoit's Law applies:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition ... There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect

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BrokenGlepnir 4 points a year ago

And once they eliminate the out-group it will never be them who is the new out-group.

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onslaught545 4 points a year ago

Why do you think they'll need to justify it?

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Bronzebeard 3 points a year ago

With lies, like everything else

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Formfiller 1 point a year ago

I know I just don’t see that going well. Especially since all the no limits on gun ownership rhetoric from the last 20 years

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CharlesDarwin 1 point a year ago

How did Taco "justify" DC?

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marsza 1 point a year ago

My bet is all at once. Within a year.

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MedicPigBabySaver 14 points a year ago

Release the Trump/Epstein files

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Treczoks 13 points a year ago

Nothing to see here. Just putting the military in place for his coup.

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PattyMcB 8 points a year ago

ACAB

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misteloct 4 points a year ago
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CharlesDarwin 3 points a year ago

Uh, when did the right wing warn about anything? I remember a whole lot of projection because they are the ones that are filled with the antisocial trait known as right wing authoritarianism.

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samus12345 2 points a year ago

They've always howled about how Democrats are taking away people's rights and freedoms. As you say, it's projection.

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gandalf_der_12te 1 point a year ago

he's doing it intentionally to convince the libs that a strong central government is a bad thing and to make everybody demand state's rights - which is one of the most important requests from republicans.

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MangioneDontMiss 0 points a year ago
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Hylactor 5 points a year ago

Fuck you. It's not easy. It's not simple. And we are trying. The united states is fucking huge and the problem is a long time in the making. The game is rigged. There are already more good guys than bad guys, but the bad guys are outmaneuvering us. So either help us, or shut the fuck up.

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MangioneDontMiss 1 point a year ago
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halferect 1 point a year ago

So excited to see you out there shooting up fascists and not online posting bullshit about how Noone is doing anything to stop it. Go do it asshole be the change you want to see

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