The former president’s authoritarian tendencies are alarming enough without inventing new outrages.

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    12 days ago

    “We need to use the military on the enemy within if necessary”

    “Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi are examples of enemies from within”

    Seems pretty clear.

    He wants to use the military against “left leaning lunatics”. Well if he refers to everyone on the left as a lunatic, then that’s everyone who disagrees with him. He sometimes defines the “lunatics” as the communist and Marxist in the party. But we already had McCarthyism once, what about second McCarthyism? Is anyone who votes left just a secret communist in disguise?

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      12 days ago

      Straight out of the fascist playbook; invent a boogyman that most reasonable people would dislike, promote violence and discrimination against this boogyman, then color all your opponents as boogymen.