{"id":131956,"date":"2016-11-07T11:19:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T18:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/the-case-by-and-against-trump-for-president.html"},"modified":"2016-11-07T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T18:19:50","slug":"the-case-by-and-against-trump-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/the-case-by-and-against-trump-for-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Case By — and Against — Trump for President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Candidates whose message boils down to "I am the only answer. I will do everything necessary to fix things. They are all out to get us, but I will deal with them" are not candidates to be trusted.<\/p>\n

Sure, to some level that's how all politicians talk. But Trump takes things to a higher level: the enemies all around us, the enemies within us, the threat to America, to American values, to American lives — and it always circles back to what he<\/i> will do, how he<\/i> is the answer, how he<\/i> will "Make America Great Again."<\/p>\n

It's a powerful and scary escalation of the usual tale, and it's one we've seen before in far too many other countries. And we've seen what comes next, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nA final plea: The case against Trump’s dangerous authoritarianism — in one chart<\/a><\/span>
\nThe best case against Donald Trump is the one he makes for himself.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Candidates whose message boils down to "I am the only answer. I will do everything necessary to fix things. They are all out to get us, but I will deal with them" are not candidates to be trusted. Sure, to some level that's how all politicians talk. But Trump takes things to a higher level: … Continue reading “The Case By — and Against — Trump for President”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130582,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/03\/the-banana-republic-presidential-candidate.html","url_meta":{"origin":131956,"position":0},"title":"The Banana Republic Presidential Candidate","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-May-16 11:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On some Latin American lessons about those who run too vigorously as \"outsider\" candidates. 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