My family often interacts with ardent Trump supporters who come from national security circles. One recent conversation, however, stands out as truly bizarre and strongly indicates why this race is so close and why Trump can regain the White House. In this recent conversation, the family member, a converted Regan Republican, spoke with a business associate who had just watched the recent Reagan movie and was convinced more than ever that the best way forward in the battle of protecting democracies from autocracies was “Peace Through Strength”. The family member and his colleague both agreed that the world was more dangerous now that at any time during the Cold War due to 1) the extreme proliferation of nuclear weapons, and 2) the asymmetrical use by autocracies of social media to foment dissent, division, and chaos in open and democratic societies such as ours. There was concern expressed by both parties that the potential for Nuclear War was now very high. However, that is where the agreement sharply diverged, with the Trump supporting associate claiming that Trump was best poised at dealing with these autocratic regimes because he was “a misogynist and an autocrat” and therefore would be better at sitting across the table from similar “autocratic and misogynist leaders” to keep us safe. I kid you not. Their answer to demonstrating strength was to turn the USA into a male-dominated autocracy because that is the best way forward to avoid a disastrous world war.
Some thoughts.
Notes:
The argument against Harris is that she is a woman and therefore weak on the world stage and will be pushed around by Putin, Xi, and other scumbags.
The argument implies that electing Harris will lead to Nuclear War.
The argument implies rather shockingly that the only way to defeat an autocracy is for us ourselves to be an autocracy
The argument may imply that while Trump is a misogynist and autocrat, there are enough guardrails in society (that he wont attempt to change), that all he needs to do is to cut deals with autocrats to keep us safe.
The argument implies that Trump won’t be corrupted by such autocrats and will keep us a democracy. He will just be able to relate to these guys on a one-on-one basis.
The argument implies somehow that Reagan and Trump are cut from the same cloth
On a personal note, this is exactly what Roman Republic tried to do by the Senate appoint a Dictator on a limited timeframe to deal with dire emergencies threatening the Republic. Needless to say, one of those dictators (Caesar) decided that he liked his power and engineered the downfall of the Roman Republic leading to him be appointed Consul for life.
It can only be concluded that these people either have zero faith in democracy or are naïve rubes who through their sitty logic and cowardice would end our wonderful experiment in self-rule. The seem to be buying Putin’s bullying hook line and sinker.
They are rattled by nuclear Sabre rattling.. Putin and Xi are wining.
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