Trump promised to be a dictator
on Day 1: Here’s why the Insurrection
Act blocks him
Posted By: crashnburn, 11/19/2024 8:08:15 PM
Could President-elect Donald Trump use the military within the U.S. to suppress protests on college campuses, patrol the southern border, and conduct mass deportations? By invoking the Insurrection Act — a little-known law that grants the president sweeping authority to deploy the military on American soil — he plans to do just that. - Snip - But in a moment when our democracy hangs by a thread, when the president-elect has openly declared potentially authoritarian ambitions, it could become the legal mechanism for Trump (or any president) to transform our constitutional democracy into a military state
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Comments:
Projection is strong these two with. We don't have a democracy. We have a Constitutional Republic, where representatives are democratically elected. Kamala Harris was selected, not elected to be the DemonRat party's nominee. With this act, if not sooner, the DemonRat party showed itself to be the threat to "Democracy" and as others have said "There is nothing democratic about the Democratic party." If PDJT was going to establish a military dictatorship, he could have done it in his first term. He didn't. And if he tried to do it now, the military would disobey that illegal order. Finaly, he was joking when he said he would be dictator on Day One.