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Trump unveiling 2028 campaign hats: ‘Soft launching a fascist dictatorship is insane’
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Except it's not being able to be elected, because he's served two terms and that limitation isn't just a law, it's an amendment. I don't care how much of congress they control, changing it will require a new amendment and that's just exceedingly unlikely to happen, much less happen before the end of his current term. So if he can't change the rules, attempting to stay in power anyway is absolutely fascist dictatorship material.
The first amendment is an amendment but he ignores that one.
Ignoring the law is what makes Trump's approach dictatorial.
And that's also fascist. If we're assembling a list of the fashy shit Trump has done one by one we might be here a while.
Simple. If done by a single person or small group that is not representative of the whole, it's facism. If done with the blessing of the people, it's not.
If trump passed an amendment changing that, and did so by acquiring the proper amount of votes in all areas, that would be fine.
If he does it by saying "I can because I say so", that's facism.
I know you're just being a troll or intentionally ignorant, but that's the answer. You're intentionally stripping ALL THE NUANCE out and trying to act naive.
To be fair, that just makes it authoritarian, not fascist. It's all the other stuff he does combined with that which makes it fascist.
Fair point. I was focusing more on the "with or without the people's blessing" aspect.
Where was the question? I only see misinformed assumptions and straight falsehoods.
I refer you to my original request about stfu-ing
The 22nd amendment does not prohibit Trump from serving a third term. It prohibits Trump from being elected a third time. Weak ass document.
Your phrasing could use some help, but you're correct that there is a flaw in the text of the amendment and the Presidenial Succession rules that may allow for shenanigans.
But the clear intent is to prevent 3rd terms, and any attempt to circumvent the amendment is definitely dictator shit.
And there's the rub. You have an extremely weak and vague Constitution that everyone has so far just agreed to follow with a wink wink, nod nod. Once the first demagogue showed up, that shit went out the window.
If only it covered vice president succession as well... Oh wait....
What are you talking about? The amendment makes no mention of VP or succession.
The amendment doesn't have to because VP already has the same requirements as president in the main body of the Constitution.
Amendments are only the change being made, not reiterating what already existed. VP used to just be the second place in the presidential election.
Show me how this keeps Trump from being allowed to succeed into POTUS. Yall are backpedalling because you've never actually read the Constitution.
No, it definitely does prevent him. You can do not serve UP TO half of someone else's term BEFORE you serve your own two. It's a total of 10 years, and you cannot be VP if you're ineligible for President.
Actually, they're right. The 22nd amendment prevents someone from being elected into office after serving 2 terms or 2 terms and half of someone else's.
It's technically silent on being elevated to the Presidency by other means than an election after serving 2 terms.
The real crazy bit is that the Speaker of the House is 3rd in line, and technically doesn't have to be a member of Congress. So ttechivally the GOP could name Trump Speaker and get rid of POTUS and Veep (through resignation or impeachment/conviction) and have Trump be President again.
That definitely makes it not fascism right? :P
Biggest evidence of fascism I see is a constitution which explicitly enshrines the right to enslave people.
Yep, that's also pretty fashy, but's by no means the only fascist issue in this country.