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Trump’s Latest Authoritarian Overture to Q-Anon Should Concern Us All Even If His Political Days Are Numbered
On July 26, “the former guy,” Donald Trump, spoke at the “America First Policy Institute” summit in which he called for concentration camps for the homeless, executing drug dealers, returning to the racist “stop-and-frisk” policies in cities, and overriding governors and mayors in deploying the national guard to high-crime neighborhoods.
It was a speech that would make Hungary’s fascist president Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin proud.
As Trump’s world comes crashing down around him, it’s easy to laugh and dismiss this as mere bluster, the tormented rantings of a delusional, ill-qualified, washed-up old wanna-be despot.
But we do so at our own peril.
Should Trump or anyone aspiring to be like him ever again gain the levers of power, this is part of the road map toward autocracy we can expect.
In the aftermath of Monday’s FBI raid on his Florida Mar-a-Lago home, Trump has made his pact with the violent and racist faction of the rapidly deteriorating republican party’s base all the more blatant.
Only a few hours after federal agents descended on his property, Trump posted on his official “Truth Social” page what appeared to be a…
