Donald Trump is Destroying America - Part I
Donald Trump is destroying the America in which I have lived for 80 years, and in which I continue to believe.
He has turned a democracy into a dictatorship, public service into private banking, and a beacon for immigrants into a construction site for concentration camps.
“You combine the threat of prosecution with armed troops in the streets. The picture is pretty clear for anyone who’s read a history book what kind of administration we’re dealing with,” Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan.
“But I have to say, certainly his actions, his administration's actions in the first year, in which they very rapidly sort of dismantled the federal bureaucracy, took over the Justice Department, took over the FBI, took over the CIA and then have created this brute squad, which is called ICE – these are the acts of a dictator, plain and simple,” America historian Robert Kagan.
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He has replaced a nation of laws with a system of cruel caprice, turning justice into vengeance and mercy into weakness.
Donald Trump: “There’s no place for mercy in my administration. A very highly placed official from a country I’m making up in my head right now [sic] told me, ‘Sir, mercy is for the weak and everyone knows that you are strong.’”
Donald Trump: "In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution."
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He has sent masked and violent thugs into America’s cities, sowing fear among our neighbors.
“It is a scary moment for thousands of families in Minnesota. . . It’s like being, maybe, in the middle of a civil war,” Francisco Segovia, Minneapolis community organizer.
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He has vulgarized our public discourse and made it the weapon of a bully, rather than the language of a leader.
Donald Trump: “Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds.”
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He has sought to banish from our history books 250 years of the courageous struggles of people trying to live out our ideals, replacing them with a whitewashed narrative we once called propaganda.
“America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.” Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City.
“Mamdani’s family fled violent racial hatred [in Uganda] only for him to come to this country – a country built by people he never knew, overflowing with generosity to his family, offering a haven from the kind of violent ethnic conflict that is commonplace in world history. And he dares, on its 249th birthday, to congratulate it by paying homage to its incompleteness, and to its, as he calls it, ‘contradiction.’ . . . Who the hell do these people think they are?” J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States
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He has snuffed out Liberty’s lamp and slammed shut the golden door.
“Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Kristi Noem: “Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom – not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS. WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.”
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