“I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote,” Trump told the crowd at Turning Point Action’s Believer’s Summit. “Christians get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore.”
“In four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” Trump added during his 70-minute long speech. “We’ll have it fixed so good. You’re not going to have to vote.”
When people tell you who they are, believe it. Trump is going all in on christofascist authoritarianism. There will be no American democracy if he wins. People really need to set aside minor differences, participate in volunteering for Democrat campaigns, and vote blue. This needs to be spread wide and far via social networks, and any attempts to minimize it should be met with forceful condemnation.
Trump doesn’t care about Christians or Republicans. The deal is, he gets to be the center of attention and above the law. In exchange, he does whatever the Republicans want. He’s too shallow, entitled and stupid to be passionate about anything except his image.
I’m like 80% sure Trump doesn’t want to end democracy. He just wants more attention, power, and to protect himself when he goes out after 4 years. He said what he said here not because democracy will be over, but because he can’t serve another term as president anymore, and he literally doesn’t care what happens after as long as he’s setup well, so “christians don’t have to vote anymore”, since he’ll not be involved anymore.
That said, the people he does favors for or listens to want to end it as much as possible.
No offense, but if you believe that, then your head is planted firmly in your butt.
I think you attribute more intelligence/planning behavior to Trump than he actually possesses. He’s an individual solely driven by his personal gain, and there’s not a lot to be gained for him by ending (the limited) democracy of the US, it’s too hard and dangerous. He might give some favors to people that actually have this plan (as I already said), thus essentially “wanting” to end democracy because he gives people that want to end democracy favors so he gets what he wants, but I don’t think that he actually cares about this goal at all.
Saying the quiet part out loud again.
I want someone to ask him point blank what he means by that. I’m sure he’ll spin some lie, but I’m curious what he’d come up with.
If he’d be smart, he’d say “we’ll have done such a good job governing that almost everyone will be convinced and vote republican anyway, so Christians don’t need to go out anymore”
This dumbass has made enough career ending faux-pas and declarations as to disgrace a dozen or so Congresses worth of politicians, and yet here we are. The desensitization is complete, he can just flatly announce his intention of ending democracy in the middle of an incoherent tirade, and people will cheer.
It really helps understanding how past autocrats got into power.
Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. There’s a chance Trump just wants to be president and once he’s term limited he doesn’t care anymore….
But the cynic in me says he wants to be a dictator
He’s outright saying he’s going to “fix” them “needing” to vote. One way or another, he definitely wants to not let someone take office after him.
Look, some part of me is still hoping Trump has a real “come to god” moment in which he realizes that he really needs to take responsibility for what he’s done. I’ve never hoped that Trump had a disastrous presidency, but I was always prepared for it.
And quite honestly, I’m not sure Trump /wants/ to be president so much as he does wants “immunity” for his crimes and he realizes he can become filthy rich abusing his power. I don’t think he wants any of the real responsibility
Could the cynic in you be simply remembering the time he said he’d be a dictator for ‘only the first day’ or something to that effect?
He said “on day one”. That doesn’t mean ONLY one day, that means it will start immediately.
