“How would Donald Trump end democracy?”
That’s what I’ve been wondering for a long time. When the Democrats say “democracy is on the ballot” just what do they mean? What do they expect if Trump wins in November?
In his first term he didn’t do anything that approached installing a dictatorship let alone be a Hitler or even a Mussolini.
But, they say, he could do worse in a second term. Robert De Niro the other day in Bill Maher was crazy enough to say that if Trump is elected both he and Maher will be arrested and put in a gulag! Fantasies.
Which fantasies Rich Lowry takes apart. This whole “the end of democracy” thing is:
… the stuff of a Philip K. Dick novel and, in the right hands, would make a compelling dystopian Netflix series. It’s not remotely plausible.
From “How exactly would Trump end American democracy?"
ADDED: we were studying the life and times of Philip K. Dick (PKD) the other day as we’d just re-watched Minority Report. Still a good movie, based on PKD’s book. As are, by the way, Blade Runner and Total Recall.Talking about alternate history PKD also wrote The Man in the High Castle an alternate history where Hitler won the war. Thing is now, with Trump v Biden, we’re looking at actual, real, in our faces reality about to hit us in the face in November. Whatever happens half the country will be pissed off. Would be nice to have PKD’s fantastical take on it.
