Cope? Here's some more then: hyperbolic rhetoric is a staple of the American political process. Twenty years ago it was "Bush is a Nazi". I never liked him

Cope? Here's some more then: hyperbolic rhetoric is a staple of the American political process. Twenty years ago it was "Bush is a Nazi". I never liked him and think his wars were criminal, but he simply wasn't a Nazi. It was hyperbolic partisan rhetoric, just as it is today. They also said he was going to turn America into a theocracy, and he never did that either. Second point: the doomsday scenarios about Trump ending democracy require several leaps of faith to believe. Even if we assume that "you'll never have to vote again" was an announcement of his intent to cancel future elections, rather than a plea to people who are usually reluctant to vote at all, believing it will actually happen requires believing that he's not lying, believing he actually has the ability to pull it off, and believing he actually has the spine. Revolutionaries are very rarely old men, he's already proven himself to be generally incompetent and broadly unable to pick loyal deputies, and he's an established liar. All of this points to him being a wet fart, not a serious threat to American democracy. Third, concerning his previous insurrection attempt, the men he managed to mobilize were so incompetent they forgot to bring guns with them. Or maybe it actually was a protest and the insurrection narrative is hyperbole. Either way, I'm not scared of this man. Fourth, with respect to trans people being beaten up... When haven't they been? I find it hard to take a plot line drawn between this point and theocracy seriously.