Biden is holding back on attacking Trump for being a wannabe, stated openly, dictator, thinking he will wait until Trump has appeared to win the GOP nomination without doubt and that Americans are just not tuned into the race itself. The thinking is that if Biden starts being aggressive now, it will just become background noise. The price Biden is paying for it is that it just verifies he is too weak a leader to throw a good punch. Assuming Biden comes out swinging after Iowa, NH, and SC, hopeful;y his campaign advisors are on target. The longer he waits, the more the American mindset could be made up, and it is too late to change perceptions of Biden's age. In the meantime, there are those who support Trump because they want a "strong leader". The problem is that they lose control over how strong..a demagogue, a tough guy, an autocrat, a dictator? Once they give Trump the White House, it is to late to keep him from being a dictator because he is ready to go on day one and he has made it no secret he will try to use his power of appointment to replace those he thinks are disloyal to him, support the rule of law instead of the rule of Trump, threaten the insurrection act against demonstrators using the active military, and replace 50K civil servants with loyalists using schedule F.
He next will use his appointees to license broadcast and cable media that dare to oppose him. Before we know it, we are in Orban's Hungary. He plans to use the FBI to persecute his political opponents, seize voting machines, and threaten primaries (like he now has done to control the House majority)., Most of the country who have no profiles in courage will just keep their mouths shut if they value their jobs in both the public and private sectors. Businesses that fall in line with him will get the benefits of government awards and decisions. It will happen so quickly America will never know what hit them until it is to late to resist either at the ballot box or on the streets. The USA becomes Hungary 2.0. That is how Orban pulled it off without the gulags. Then what? It will be a country ruled by fear and favor for a while, but unlike Hungary, which is 99% pure Magyar, ours is only 57^White, and not all of those are racialist nationalists. MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: CPAC Cheers a white nationalist dictator: is that what the GOP base has become?
For those who want their president to be a "strong man," I have a few words. I have had firsthand experience. Know you live in fear in a dictatorship that someone will hear a disloyal comment from you and report it, and there will be some repercussions. The least might be you lose a job or a promotion or get primaried, and the worst may be like Navalny, who disappeared in some gulag after revolting against Putin's corruption in amassing his personal fortune. It is a fearful life, and your tongue is always on guard because that is how "strong men" stay in power, with fear and force, and you are powerless to change it. The only votes counted are the 80% constant approval of the Boss, and the rest are to give the impression the autocracy is still a "democracy."
We throw around the word "freedom" a lot, but the freedom to express yourself to others, privately, or in media, or in voting, or in lifestyle, or in protesting, but in a dictatorship, this is not protected by the fine words of any amendment to the Constitution. All laws are interpreted to support the rule and power of the strong man and all potential institutions of checks and balances are under the control or are comprised of loyalists. That is what living under an autocracy, a dictatorship, means. You lose those freedoms. Both communist dictatorships and fascist ones are like that, though the ideology to which all are to conform may come from Marx or Mein Kampf or the fantasies of one mind, the mind of the "boss".
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