If Trump is an existential threat to American Democracy, then...

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/04/if-trump-is-existential-threat-to.html

It is a difficult word to define, but as an adjective linked to the noun "threat" and used in reference to Trump as a politician, the meaning is clear. The manner in which Trump operates as a businessman, and subsequently has operated as a politician and President of the United States makes him an existential threat to American democracy. He has no understanding of the Constitution, and no appreciation for the values it embodies. He's a demagogue who demands personal loyalty, not patriotism, from his followers. His god is the dollar, and he's made it clear that while he loves Evangelical votes and support, he won't convert to their brand of Christianity, preferring the prosperity gospel cult, from which he chooses his "spiritual" advisors.

But we are now well beyond defining Trump as an existential threat to democracy. He has proven this statement to be true.

So what do we do about it?

Trump was re-elected in spite of the fact that he has been convicted of sexual assault, and indicted for inciting insurrection and stealing classified documents. Our justice department failed, over a four year period during which the politics were favorable, to bring him to trial. There are multiple reasons why our system failed, but it was mainly because when the threat needed to be evaluated and considered for what it really was, it wasn't taken seriously. And when the obstacles to a resolution became apparent, the party in power was not willing to use its power to remove the obstacles.

We are seeing a systematic implementation of Project 2025. Everything Trump is doing is related to following, in some fashion, the steps they have outlined to gain control of the government before they put their full blown agenda into place. They've been delayed along the way by some pushback, mainly through legal channels and gaps in the federal judiciary where they did not control the judicial appointments. And they are somewhat handicapped by the fact that Trump had his own agenda for who he wanted in certain cabinet positions, so there are some non-Project 2025 appointees, like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, who are more Putin tools than Heritage Foundation hacks.

[Karadeniz]

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[Walleye]

2. Trump is a much bigger threat to the United States and MS 13 or any of those gangs.