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Trump Promises to Flip America Fascist if Re-Elected
America has traditionally regarded itself immune to the fissures that condemn weaker democracies.
We hail ourselves (most of the time) as the exemplar of elections, peaceful transitions of power, and civilized political discourse.
We understand intellectually we are imperfect and have done things for which we should not be proud and for which we must atone, like slavery, segregation, and the genocide of Indigenous Americans.
We have supervised elections in other countries to ensure honesty and transparency.
While economic interests and hubris have too frequently been behind our decisions more than good intentions, we want democracy to grow across the globe.
It’s hard to think of the United States of America as a fascist dictatorship.
Yet that is exactly what certain sycophants supporting a certain twice-impeached, twice- (soon to be thrice) indicted slumlord former host of Celebrity Apprentice who happened to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for four years want to turn the United States into should their favorite orange wanna-be dictator stumble his way back onto 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
On Monday, the New York Times reported that people close to Donald Trump’s campaign and scrutiny of campaign…
