Liz Cheney recently said that, with the 2024 election coming up and the possibility of another Trump presidency, America would be "sleepwalking into dictatorship." That is as true an assessment of where America is right now as I have ever heard. A second Trump administration would be all about revenge, and destruction of institutions that preserve democracy. If you're foolish enough to think that Democrats are weaponizing the government, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Lindsey Graham was asked about Liz Cheney's statement, and he responded with his own spiel of highly dangerous statements.
He said that the "continuation of the Biden presidency would be a disaster," and jabbered on with nonsense about "broken borders," saying that the only person who could fix the borders is Donald Trump. One problem that we have in America now is that Republicans spew crazy, scary statements that are not in the least true: Democrats are for open borders; the economy is the worst it's been in American history. These are outright lies, but they scare the credulous, low information citizen.
Scary lies are part of the Trump playbook. He claims that, in the less than four years of Biden's presidency, Washington DC has deteriorated beyond recognition. That claim is not only ridiculous (and impossible), but very rich from the man whose final days in office left the Capitol building with property damage and shit-smeared walls.
But, back to Graham's bullshit. He blames the situations in both Ukraine and Israel on Biden's weakness. "Hamas is afraid of Trump." I doubt it. If Hamas is not afraid of Israel's ultra-right-wing government, I doubt they even give Trump a second thought. And Putin, far from being afraid of Trump, used him as a sock puppet. If Trump had been in office when Putin invaded Ukraine, we would have supplied no weapons to Ukraine, because Trump would have sided with Putin.
Graham's final statement on the matter was that, after a second Biden term, "We won't recognize America, and the world will truly be on fire."
Lindsey, I don't recognize America now, and that's the problem. Today's Republicans care nothing for democracy, and embrace authoritarianism. And authoritarian governments, from Russia to the former government of Bolsonaro's Brazil, and now joined by the Netherlands and Argentina, are the ones who have set the world on fire and have no interest in putting the fire out.
