Donald Trump's address at the Conservative Political Action Conference? It was a veiled insurrectionist speech. "In 2016, I declared I am your voice, Today I add: I am your warrior, I am your justice -- and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I will totally obliterate the deep state."
You can drop the word "deep." What it amounts to is that he will totally obliterate the state. By the time we get done reflecting on what he means with the word "deep," we have great reason to believe it translates into the obliteration of American democracy.
Deep state to Trump would be anyone who opposes him, including those who occupy positions in our government. When he says he will be the "warrior" for those who have been wronged and betrayed, who could he possibly be referring to? The Capitol rioters, maybe? Who else could he be referring to? Voters who he felt were defrauded? Certainly. And, he will be their "retribution"? He will "totally obliterate" . . . who?
That who is anyone who gets in his way. And, by the time he is done providing retribution and obliterating them, America will no longer be a democracy. It will be a nation where, if you don't like the vote, you kick out the votes you don't like and call yourself the winner, anyway.
That would be dictator, not a president, and it is troubling to see that this nation might be headed that way.
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