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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTweet: If Trump is not held accountable, we are slouching toward the end of our Republic.
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Tweet: If Trump is not held accountable, we are slouching toward the end of our Republic. (Original Post)
Swede
Jan 2023
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spanone
(135,844 posts)1. Agreed.
EYESORE 9001
(25,943 posts)2. Good choice of words
It evokes the poem by W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
kairos12
(12,862 posts)3. More like sprinting.
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)4. Is there still a belief that he's not?
Pete Ross Junior
(404 posts)5. I'm strongly in favor of holding Trump accountable but ...
... but that's far from the only issue that slouches us toward the end of our republic.
Remove Trump from the picture and the forces that elected him remain.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)6. More like careening wildly.
Funtatlaguy
(10,879 posts)7. The question isn't IF He should be indicted, it's what do we do if he ISNT.
doc03
(35,348 posts)8. Even if he is held accountable, which I highly doubt there is DeSantis and several others waiting to
continue where Trump left off. It's more of a sprint.
Hotler
(11,425 posts)9. If the fascist take power in 2024 we will immediately become a dictatorship.
Last edited Mon Jan 30, 2023, 11:38 AM - Edit history (1)
Protesting will be outlawed and put down by force. Political enemy's will be rounded up. It will turn dark fast.
I would think to put a dent in the leadership of the fascist the DOJ would have started locking some fuckers up. Ti k-tok Mr. Wick, Tik-tok.
triron
(22,007 posts)11. And most Americans don't have a clue.
So not only a fascist dictatorship but an 'idiocracy '
Autumn
(45,107 posts)10. Slouching? Nah, running towards it full speed. If he or another puke gets elected we are done for.