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Maybe, but I'm old enough to remember this same rhetoric around the GW Bush election too. All the Nazi and fascist comparisons included. The US didn't collapse, and we even got Obama after that.
Not a trump supporter at all, but as a normie and talking to other normies, this messaging of "biden or die" isn't working as well as these echo chambers make it seem.
Bush didn't have the 2025 plan that Trump has now, and Bush wasn't facing legal threats (though by all rights he SHOULD have been!)
The only reason Trump didn't go full authoritarian in his first term was that he didn't expect to win and had no plan. It will be far worse this time.
That's possible. My perspective is that he didn't get things done the first time because he's not an effective leader or delegator.
I don't believe that Trump is fueled by passion or ideals to change the country, its about popularity and playing the game.
He had "plans" for things like The Wall and Locking Her Up, then quickly dropped both of those things. His perceived passion for Hillary is especially notable to me and how quickly he "let her off the hook" after winning. Telling his base to move on and forget it.
What he did with the supreme court will likely be his legal legacy in my opinion. And a lasting one, no doubt.
Oh yeah, and not just the supremes, but the judiciary in GENERAL.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump
"The total number of Trump Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by the United States Senate was 234, including three associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 54 judges for the United States courts of appeals, 174 judges for the United States district courts, and three judges for the United States Court of International Trade."
Bush didn't actively try to overthrow the fuckin government.