• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
    22·
    2 days ago

    yeah - conservatives dont want democracy. they arent “of the people, for the people”. They want a king. they long for a life long monarch to tell them what to do.

    • chingadera@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 days ago

      There’s a really important distinction that I’d like to make here.

      They want him to be king so he will tell us what to do, and if that includes them, so be it. But it’s more of them causing harm to us, that’s the value they see in it.

  • A_A@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 day ago

    2025 February 20, other sources :

    Washington Post

    ~By Justine McDaniel~ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-third-term-king-unconstitutional/

    Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term

    The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a king and quoted a dictator in suggesting that he was immune from following laws

    President Donald Trump on Thursday again raised the prospect of serving for an unconstitutional third term, asking a crowd at a White House event whether he should run again and receiving audience chants of “Four more years!”

    The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a king and quoted a dictator in suggesting that he was immune from following laws — all while his administration has continued pushing the bounds of presidential power.

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    Washington Examiner

    ~By Mabinty Quarshie and Hailey Bullis~ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3324704/cpac-trump-power-third-term-push/

    CPAC relishes in Trump’s power amid push for unconstitutional third term

    NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland - - Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference celebrated President Donald Trump‘s whirlwind return to power, with some mulling a plan to keep the Republican in the White House beyond a second term. (…)

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    @ fucking ~msn~ :

    (i do not post such putrid links, yet title is…) ‘Caesar figure’: MAGA die-hards pushing 3rd Trump term met with CPAC silence

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  • drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 day ago

    FDR got four terms, even after putting 120,000 American citizens in literal concentration camps. Nothing should surprise us at this point.