Mona Charen is spot on when she says "They are more like the MAGA crowd than they know." If they vote for Trump or just don't vote, it will serve them right when the wannabe dictator starts taking away their rights. Let's see, national abortion ban, no protesting allowed, voting rights curtailed, more conservative SCOTUS appointees to na…
Mona Charen is spot on when she says "They are more like the MAGA crowd than they know." If they vote for Trump or just don't vote, it will serve them right when the wannabe dictator starts taking away their rights. Let's see, national abortion ban, no protesting allowed, voting rights curtailed, more conservative SCOTUS appointees to name a few. I'm old enough not to be affected much but they will be. Wake up kids, it's not 1968 and Israel is not our Vietnam.
Trump would likely crush the protests on day one, with explicit orders to cause “maximum brutality”, knowing him. He’d almost certainly offer to pardon any officers (or irregular militias) who inflict actual unprovoked violence. And these kids think Joe Biden is the villain.
And a majority of the American people will celebrate it. It's exactly why Duterte enjoyed sky-high approval ratings all throughout his time as president of the Philippines. In times of chaos and disorder, someone, even a dictator, who is seen putting an end to it will be immensely popular. This is a lesson to democratic leaders: enforce law and order, or fascists will.
Trump lost power in the first place because he was seen as goosing lawlessness, chaos, disorder, and violence, not reducing it. That was Biden’s case against him in 2020; it will be his case against him in 2024, particularly as the election approaches.
Trump practically barks threats on the daily to pardon (loyal) rioters, bless militias and rioters doing violence for him, and politically purge the military, the better to unleash it on half of America. He gives Biden regular material to make the case that he, not the president, is the agent of chaos and disorder.
Undoubtedly, some Americans support said plans of Trump and consider them pro-“law and order”, rather than their clear opposite. But hardly a “majority” of America. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is not the Philippines.
Trust me, democratic leaders have absorbed the lesson you mentioned quite well. The real question is whether the protesters and their supporters have, and whether they are in any mood to cooperate with said democratic leaders to stop said fascists, or rather whether they will unwittingly aid the latter to settle petty grievances with the former.
It will be, but will the American people remember? Most of the disorder during the Trump years was in the final year, the one that most people memory-hole and don’t consider his fault since it was precipitated by an exogenous event.
SOME of them are more like the MAGA crowd than they know.. Most of them were protesting peacefully. Some of us are more like the MAGA crowd than we know when we use the minority to characterize the majority.
Mona Charen is spot on when she says "They are more like the MAGA crowd than they know." If they vote for Trump or just don't vote, it will serve them right when the wannabe dictator starts taking away their rights. Let's see, national abortion ban, no protesting allowed, voting rights curtailed, more conservative SCOTUS appointees to name a few. I'm old enough not to be affected much but they will be. Wake up kids, it's not 1968 and Israel is not our Vietnam.
Trump would likely crush the protests on day one, with explicit orders to cause “maximum brutality”, knowing him. He’d almost certainly offer to pardon any officers (or irregular militias) who inflict actual unprovoked violence. And these kids think Joe Biden is the villain.
And a majority of the American people will celebrate it. It's exactly why Duterte enjoyed sky-high approval ratings all throughout his time as president of the Philippines. In times of chaos and disorder, someone, even a dictator, who is seen putting an end to it will be immensely popular. This is a lesson to democratic leaders: enforce law and order, or fascists will.
Trump lost power in the first place because he was seen as goosing lawlessness, chaos, disorder, and violence, not reducing it. That was Biden’s case against him in 2020; it will be his case against him in 2024, particularly as the election approaches.
Trump practically barks threats on the daily to pardon (loyal) rioters, bless militias and rioters doing violence for him, and politically purge the military, the better to unleash it on half of America. He gives Biden regular material to make the case that he, not the president, is the agent of chaos and disorder.
Undoubtedly, some Americans support said plans of Trump and consider them pro-“law and order”, rather than their clear opposite. But hardly a “majority” of America. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is not the Philippines.
Trust me, democratic leaders have absorbed the lesson you mentioned quite well. The real question is whether the protesters and their supporters have, and whether they are in any mood to cooperate with said democratic leaders to stop said fascists, or rather whether they will unwittingly aid the latter to settle petty grievances with the former.
It will be, but will the American people remember? Most of the disorder during the Trump years was in the final year, the one that most people memory-hole and don’t consider his fault since it was precipitated by an exogenous event.
SOME of them are more like the MAGA crowd than they know.. Most of them were protesting peacefully. Some of us are more like the MAGA crowd than we know when we use the minority to characterize the majority.
Agreed. Great piece by Mona -- again.