Trump’s Ruthless Plan to Stomp Out Democracy in 2024
Trump still has majority Republican support; most are ready and willing for a 2024 authoritarian coup
When Republicans in the United States Senate refused to convict Donald Trump of his crimes against democracy, they set up his comeback plans for 2024. Odds are he’ll be either making an announcement at the upcoming CPAC conference, or at least will strongly hint at it.
This will benefit the Trump Crime Family in a variety of ways, but represents a significant peril to the fragments of American democracy that survived his departure from the White House.
Trump has never believed in democracy; indeed he has spent most all of his life corrupting the democratic process through campaign contributions that were naked bribes (and about which he bragged during the 2016 primary) to his many assaults on the rule of law both as a businessman and as president.
Trump’s comeback in 2024 may be as a candidate for the presidency, or he may simply end up supporting some other modern American fascist for president, but come it will. And, initially, it will almost certainly come as his being an actual candidate.
Trump’s approval rating among Republicans is now back above 50%, and Fareed Zakaria just pointed…
