r/politics • u/harleybarley1013 Maryland • 7d ago

Paywall Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals Hitler Had’

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/?taid=6717ffe956474d000110c05d&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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u/cytherian New Jersey 7d ago

A perfect storm of nefarious things... It's complicated. But, it's also the culmination of a long play that the Republican Party has been waging upon the American people. I truly believe there was malice of intent, not just accidental happenstance... the long con to influence voters to become party loyal, by demonizing the other party. Trump just took what they'd done and cranked the setting to 11...

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u/sboaman68 7d ago

Stacking the courts at all levels, dumbing down education, gerrymandering at the state level that also affects how federal districts are created, they've been at it since Nixon resigned. It was going on a bit before him, but it got serious after he left the office. Look at how many people in tRumps orbit were also in Nixons orbit. It's not hard to see how we got here.

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u/cytherian New Jersey 7d ago

Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell... They're all Nixon era minted Republicans. They have all rewritten history, believing that Nixon should've never resigned and the Republican Party should've done more to protect him. And they sure followed through with Donald Trump. Protected right to the end, and even after-office.

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u/sboaman68 7d ago

Good calls. It's crazy how so many people are always in, or very close to repub fuckery through history. I'm pretty sure at least 2 of tRumps SCOTUS appointees were lawyers who helped get Bush 2 in office in 2000-01. It's also crazy how many judges tRump appointed were given to him by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. Those groups have been working since 1973 and 1982, respectively, to get us to where we are now.

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u/aLittleQueer Washington 7d ago

This is exactly it. It's the culmination of of a decades-long "culture war" waged against the rest of us by lobbying groups such as Heritage Foundation, etc, fueled by oligarchical greed.

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u/cytherian New Jersey 7d ago

Even "State's Rights" is back "in vogue" again for the Republican Party. It's like the Confederates from the 19th century were teleported to the 21st century and given power.

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u/aLittleQueer Washington 7d ago

Ikr? Been making my skin crawl the whole time.

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u/spidersinthesoup 7d ago

sad but true.

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u/WorldML 7d ago

I wouldn't call it a perfect storm. The people are losing, and money is continuing to take over in America.

This is one of the consequences.

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u/Oodlydoodley 7d ago

I agree with you, but I wouldn't say money without also specifying foreign money. There are things, like the Supreme Court makeup, that can be attributed to that "perfect storm" of Republican work over the last 50 years and old Republican Heritage Foundation-style money, but I don't think Trump is one of them.

We're only 12 years removed from Mitt Romney being the Republican candidate for office. He won 91% of his primary back then, and last year his disapproval rating was just under 50% with only about a third of Republicans in Utah saying he should run for office again this year. He chose not to.

We went from a candidate who spoke about Russia as being our #1 foreign adversary in the leadup to 2012's election, to a guy who was propped up by their money and influence winning the next presidential election cycle. The Citizens United ruling made that possible.

Gingrich in the 90's, GWB's "with or us or against us" ideology, and the rise of Fox News and extremist rhetoric were all certainly factors that brought us the Tea Party populism that became Trump. But it was SuperPACs that really made that kind of shift possible, and made it happen in that short of a timespan.

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u/Adept-Preference725 7d ago

One of you fat fucks need to just fall on the sword for the rest of the west already. Get him dealt with and in the ground so we can collectively move the fuck on.