You’re not generally wrong here, but if trump were to become this dictator, in all likelihood he would call gun owners to kill the unarmed libs first. THEN take the guns from the righties. I’m not sure how that makes a huge difference from a self defense standpoint, but I thought it was an important step in the evolution of your described state
Yeah, I don’t see that happening at all, for a number of reasons. Trump is the useful idiot real dictators would hold out in front to get the rubes to sign up and make way for themselves. As soon as martial law was declared and the Constitution set aside, Trump would be too, probably for his legal replacement (VP or Speaker of the House, etc), who would hold the reins until the transfer of power was secure, less than a year. And then that person would be set aside for the real power, the one(s) orchestrating the coup to begin with.
(Note how Pence only backed out of the January 6 plan at the VERY last minute he could, and not prior: Pence knew there was a coup in progress, that it was already underway, and refused to get into the Secret Service vehicle specifically for that reason, though he claimed ignorance as to the rest.)
You can believe Trump would be a dictator, but he was president for a single term, he is no longer incumbent, and most importantly, Trump literally cannot string together a coherent sentence or even keep from shitting his pants publicly. It takes much more than Trump has to engineer and successfully execute a coup over the span of several years. Agree to disagree, I guess.
You’re not generally wrong here, but if trump were to become this dictator, in all likelihood he would call gun owners to kill the unarmed libs first. THEN take the guns from the righties. I’m not sure how that makes a huge difference from a self defense standpoint, but I thought it was an important step in the evolution of your described state
Yeah, I don’t see that happening at all, for a number of reasons. Trump is the useful idiot real dictators would hold out in front to get the rubes to sign up and make way for themselves. As soon as martial law was declared and the Constitution set aside, Trump would be too, probably for his legal replacement (VP or Speaker of the House, etc), who would hold the reins until the transfer of power was secure, less than a year. And then that person would be set aside for the real power, the one(s) orchestrating the coup to begin with.
(Note how Pence only backed out of the January 6 plan at the VERY last minute he could, and not prior: Pence knew there was a coup in progress, that it was already underway, and refused to get into the Secret Service vehicle specifically for that reason, though he claimed ignorance as to the rest.)
You can believe Trump would be a dictator, but he was president for a single term, he is no longer incumbent, and most importantly, Trump literally cannot string together a coherent sentence or even keep from shitting his pants publicly. It takes much more than Trump has to engineer and successfully execute a coup over the span of several years. Agree to disagree, I guess.