There Is No “Both Sides” to Donald Trump’s Threat to Democracy - eviltoast
  • irmoz@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Why exactly do you want to vote for a treasonous insurrectionist? Why should such a person be allowed to run?

    Do you really think it’s undemocratic to protect democracy from someone approaching fascism?

    • blazera@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I dont. I dont like trump. I hope he gets convicted for his crimes. But so far he hasnt. People are direly minimizing how dangerous a precedent it is to bar a frontrunner candidate from an election. That is millions of Americans who are being told they cant vote for who they want to, by the opposition party. Later on Trump will preach to them about democracy being taken away from them, and theyll have quite the reason to believe him. This wont go well.

      • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        It wouldn’t be a dangerous precedent. What WOULD be a dangerous precedent would be to let someone who clearly engaged in insurrection run for President unmolested.