Is the Left Preparing for War If Trump Wins?

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-31 05:34:34 | Updated at 2024-11-06 14:35:26 6 days ago

Is the Left Preparing for War If Trump Wins?
Tom Klingenstein ^ | 10/28/2024 | Lee Smith

Posted on 10/30/2024 10:28:19 PM PDT by ma_che62

The propaganda campaign labeling Donald Trump as an aspiring dictator determined to use the military and national security apparatus against his political opponents is designed not to affect the upcoming election but rather to shape the post-election environment.

It is the central piece of a narrative that, by characterizing Trump as a tyrant (indeed likening him to Hitler), establishes the conditions for violence — not just another attempt on Trump’s life, but political violence on a massive scale intended to destabilize the country...

...Disruption, destabilization, and violence are legitimized by a narrative driven by self-congratulatory mirror-imaging and projection in which the so-called defenders of democracy face down an authoritarian Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at tomklingenstein.com ...

TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brooks; hitler; trump; tyrant

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1 posted on 10/30/2024 10:28:19 PM PDT by ma_che62

To: ma_che62

2 posted on 10/30/2024 10:32:59 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)

To: ma_che62

The left really better be careful, they’ve made a lot of enemies and some people really hate them now.
They’d be advised to just hide under their blankets.

3 posted on 10/30/2024 10:33:40 PM PDT by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)

To: ma_che62

I continue to stockpile ammo at both of my places.

Wife asks now and then if I am preparing for war?
Maybe, says I.

4 posted on 10/30/2024 10:34:02 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)

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