Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
Both Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton and former defense secretary Mark Esper say that Trump was planning to pull out of NATO in a second term. Make no mistake about it: if Trump gets back to the WH, he’ll try to pull the US out of the most powerful military alliance in history, fulfilling one of Putin’s main goals. A vote for Trump is a vote for a weaker and more isolated America.
I've quoted Marco Rubio repeatedly on this: "The American people knew exactly what they were getting when they voted for Trump" in 2016. Same as Germans in the elections in 1938 and 1939. Folks, with democratic forms of government you're in for a dime and in for a dollar. If Trump Parte Deux is what the American people want, we're committed to democracy and Trump is who we'll get. There's nothing we can do as democrats to stop it. Democracy is flawed, as all political systems for choosing leaders are. Repeating myself ad nauseam, democracy, like our jury system, is process-determinative. The result of a free and fair election, and a fair and impartial jury is legitimacy by definition. The winner of a free election is conferred with the crown of legitimacy; the result of a fair jury that follows the law is Justice. It does no good to say O.J. Simpson killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goodman. He did not! per the jury. We are going to have a free and fair election in 2024 and Trump, obviously, could well be reelected. If he is we believers in democracy have no complaint. The result will be the last free and fair election in the United States, but unless we are willing to go to extra-democratic means to prevent it, and that itself would make us a non-democratic government, we are stuck by the rules of democracy with Trump Parte Deux. The rare but not unknown fatal flaw in democracies is not the leader chosen, but the people who choose the leader. Those are facts, ladies and gentlemen, and they are the bedrock of democratic theory. But. However. Whatever the polls say now and have said and perhaps will say in the next year, Donald Trump will not be reelected. But if I'm wrong there is nothing that we can do about it. The people more or less made Trumpie president in 2016 and we lived, perilously, with four years of utterly disastrous results. Trumpie Parte Deux will be far, far worse, the end of Democracy in America. Vote, mobilize, persuade others if you can, but to employ a brutal cruelty, if rape is inevitable, submit to the inevitable. Emigrate or get on with our lives as best we can under unparalleled circumstances. Those are our options.
