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Curtis Stinespring's avatar

Unable to read the article even after giving WaPo my email address as they requested. Now, I will be stuck with their spam forever. I'll just assume the article is more made-up tripe like I've seen from them in the past. I do not believe all of the Constitutional safeguards can be by-passed to allow Trump to become a dictator. He is hated by at 50% of the voters, at least 50% of congress, 70% of the bureaucrats. five members of the Supreme Court and probably most of the upper-level military brass.

I suppose you will say I'm a participant in the groupthink that is exactly what led to the Israeli intelligence failure and could lead to a Trump dictatorship. I will continue to believe that Biden policies are more likely to lead to long-lasting damage to the USA than anything Trump could get away with.

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Dean Arvidson's avatar

Interesting post here Steve, (and I liked your previous post 'Will Nikki Turn?' In both posts you quoted other writers (Robert Kagan here, and David French in the other post) who are saying very strongly and urgently that Trump is a threat to democracy. (Kagan paints a particularly stark picture of just how dictatorial things might get with Trump as president).

All this leads me to ask you whether you have rethought a statement you made in a post over a year ago that you thought Trump was more dangerous out of the office (where he isn't constrained by pesky things like laws, rules and the constitution) than in office (as president). My guess would be that Mr. French and Mr. Kagan (along with just about every other pundit both on the left and on the right) would disagree with that previous position of yours.

One other reason I'm motivated to ask about your current thinking on that point is that you doubled down several times on the idea (in subsequent posts). Do you still believe Trump is more dangerous out of office than in office? Thanks.

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