[ExI] I wish this was fake news

[John Clark]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com
> wrote:

*> I'm finding it harder and harder to care one way or another,*

You don't care  if a dictatorship is established?! Yes yes I know, it’s
very trendy in certain circles to make provocative statements like "we
already have a dictatorship", but the very fact that someone can make such
statements and is not in jail is proof that the utterance is untrue. If you
think this is as bad as things can get you suffer from a lack of
imagination.

> *> but I think there is a significantly nonzero chance that Trump at least
> tries to do something like this.*

I’m not certain Trump is smart enough to fulfill his dream of becoming
dictator, he is after all not noted for his intellectual prowess, but I am
certain if he looses in 2020 he will not be a good sport about it, and even
a unsuccessful attempt to grab power will be pretty horrible. There will
literally be blood in the streets.  And when it comes to gaining power
being colorful and knowing the buzz words needed to whip a brainless mob
into a frenzy might compensate for having a room temperature IQ.

> *> I do believe if the people don't want it, it won't happen.  Even if the
> military was on his side, I don't think they would coup against the nominal
> wishes of the majority of Americans.*

In 2016 a majority of the American people didn’t want Trump to be Commander
in Chief, even a plurality didn’t want him to have such awesome power, and
yet here we are. The Republican congress will go along with anything Trump
does and if he has the military on his side too its all over. How do you
expect civilians to stand up against main battle tanks?

 John K Clark
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