Trump Promotes Alarming Washington Post Column Warning His Presidency Would Be a ‘Dictatorship’
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Former President Donald Trump on Monday shared a Washington Post column warning about the increasing “inevitability” of a “Trump dictatorship.”
The leading GOP candidate for president shared the article on Truth Social when he “retruthed” a post from Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL).
“For months, the radical left and never Trumpers tried to claim Pres. Trump could not win a general election. They tried to launch countless indictments & false allegations to get him off the ballot. Now, it’s obvious the Americans from all walks of life, not from any singular socioeconomic background, are in staunch support of Donald J. Trump,” Mills wrote on the Trump-owned platform, adding:
The American people want the economy Trump created, affordable living conditions, safety back in our communities, peace through strength foreign policies that prevented all out war, and an America first driven agenda.
All that is opposite of what we’ve gotten under the failed Biden Admin.
The end of the post oddly linked to an article from last week by Washington Post editor at large Robert Kagan, titled, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.”
Kagan begins the article by writing, “Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day.” He goes on to argue that Trump has made it clear he plans to move the U.S. away from democracy and toward an autocratic government function not on behalf of the American people but instead solely in service of Trump and his whims.
The article includes artwork fusing the images of Trump and Julius Caesar and ends with a dire warning for all Americans:
We are closer to that point today than we have ever been, yet we continue to drift toward dictatorship, still hoping for some intervention that will allow us to escape the consequences of our collective cowardice, our complacent, willful ignorance and, above all, our lack of any deep commitment to liberal democracy. As the man said, we are going out not with a bang but a whimper.
Trump’s apparent embrace of the article seems to be his latest explicit acknowledgment that he is done with the guardrails, checks and balances, and other democratic institutions that restrain the powers of the American presidency.
