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No thanks, pretty well versed in WWII, you need to do some research. I suggest you start with the night of the long knives. That was in 1934, as he rose to power.
That's when Hitler laid his political opponents to waste and made the rest fall in line so they did not meet the same fate. That's why I find that comment strange. That's what YOU said Trump would do in a second term.
Victims of the Night of the Long Knives - Wikipedia |
That's what is happening now. Political prisoners are being taken, dissidents are being harangued, investigated, etc. The leftist journalist Matt Taibbi who was one of the reporters that broke the Twitter/government suppression campaign, had an IRS agent come to his home....while he was testifying before Congress. We've got the ex president being harassed by lawfare, even now, over 2 years after he was deposed. This is unheard of.
Remember the Charlottesville protest? Protestors are being arrested right now, even though it's been over 6 years since the incident. And coincidentally, only protestors on one side of the statue protest are being arrested.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/19/11708...y-are-indicted
Remember the Roger Stone SWAT raid? An elderly man with no weapons, disabled wife, who is attorney repped, is raided by a 20+ man heavily armed SWAT team complete with frogmen, and an airship, as well as CNN cameras.
Then there was the Christian abortion clinic protestor who was raided the same way by the FBI even though he had made it known if there were to be charges, he'd peacefully surrender. Found not guilty, by the way, but the intimidation, the PTSD inflicted on his wife and kids, and causing the guy to lose a lot of money defending himself.....all that worked as intended.
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laid his political opponents to waste and made the rest fall in line so they did not meet the same fate.
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This is happening right now, before our eyes. Trump was accused of exactly this kind of behavior, being a dictator, using government to crush opposition, but that didn't, in fact, happen. Why were Trump supporters upset? When they found out he really was NOT going to go after Hillary for the e-mail handling crimes, statutory crimes requiring no intent. Trump instead, pissed off his own base by saying the Clintons were fine people and that we should just let it go.
Trump, in contrast, received no such mercy, and is still being harangued. You must admit, you've never seen that before. Remember the vitriol from the other side over Clinton? Bush, Jr.? Once they left office, that was it, the vitriol stopped. Look at us now, "Oh, how cute, Michelle Obama and George Bush are friends now! Aww!"
Not so with Trump. Trump truly was the outsider, and the attacks on him post presidency are de facto proof of that.