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I don't think that people are afraid that he will become a dictator because of his popular support so much as because no one is standing up to his abuse of powe

I don't think that people are afraid that he will become a dictator because of his popular support so much as because no one is standing up to his abuse of power. There's also the fact that MAGA is putting their thumb more and more on the election scales. I'm already not sure I think the next election will be fair considering how much MAGA has cheated already.

slg 1y ago
>I don't think that people are afraid that he will become a dictator because of his popular support so much as because no one is standing up to his abuse of power. This is frustratingly self-reinforcing. Why is "no one... standing up to his abuse"? Because "no one is standing up to his abuse".
- mmooss 1y ago
  It's trendy on the left, including among leaders, to resign, to talk about being powerlessness and afraid, etc. Today's NY Times had an article interviewing pro-Palestinian protestors mostly saying it. What a bunch of losers. And who would support them? Who is going to advocate for people who won't advocate for themselves? Have you ever heard a leader talk like that? Is that what they remember Churchill saying, standing alone against the Germans? MLK facing the overwhelming racist power structure, law enforcement, etc.? Washington at Valley Forge - 'to my soldiers, I feel really hopeless. The Brits are the most powerful military in the world and we're just a ragtag, irregular local force. There's nothing we can do. I'm going to resign, cross the Delaware, and return to my farm to wait out the war with my family.'