Ruth Ben-Ghiat was asked if she'd "ever seen loyalty like this that doesn’t come at the barrel of a gun?”HuffPostBy Lee MoranMarch 11, 2024MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin asked authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat to explain why Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are “going out of their way to kiss the ring” of Donald Trump with their endorsements of the former president in the 2024 election.“Have you ever seen loyalty like this that doesn’t come at the barrel of a gun?” Mohyeldin asked Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University and author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.”“That’s actually the saddest thing about this, is that in many regimes, if you criticize the leader even if he’s no longer in office, you go to jail or you’re shot,” Ben-Ghiat replied.In the GOP, however, it is loss of office or reputations that are at stake, she said.
For those he want to seek vengeance from… like me and the LGBTQ+ community. Beware!
In Trump own words he said he will seek retribution. The Hill wrote last November that,
Trump’s own words have made increasingly clear how fixated he is on revenge and targeting his perceived enemies if he wins a second term in the White House next November. The former president has openly mused in recent days that his own indictment has “released the genie out of the box” and would allow him to weaponize the government against his opponents.His comments have raised alarms among critics, some of whom fear a second Trump administration will lack some of the guardrails that existed during his first four years in office.“His policies are not centered around improving the lives of his supporters or Americans in general, it’s centered around consolidating power for Trump, and that way he can wield it to enact that revenge on anyone he deems as an enemy,” said Sarah Matthews, a former Trump White House and campaign press aide who resigned over the Jan. 6 riots.“And that is what is scary, and I wish that was penetrating through more in the minds of voters,” Matthews added.
He is focused on one thing, crushing his “enemies” not on what is good for the country.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."Dr. Maya Angelou
Trump is like a 10 year old on a school playground calling other derogatory names,
Donald Trump's fractured relationship with human decency is especially evident when it comes to those with disabilities.MSNBC NewsBy Steve BenenMarch 11, 2024A couple of months ago, while on the campaign trail in Iowa, Donald Trump had plenty to say about President Joe Biden, though there was one line of attack that stood out: The Republican thought it’d be appropriate to take aim at the Democrat’s childhood speaking impediment.Just hours after Biden’s remarks on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, the former president told supporters, “Did you see him? He was stuttering through the whole thing. He’s saying I’m a threat to democracy. ‘He’s a threat to d-d-democracy.’”The rhetoric wasn’t just cheap, it was also false: At no point in Biden’s Jan. 6 remarks did he struggle with the word “democracy.”
This isn’t the first time Trump mocked the disabled during the 2016 elections,
Trump appeared to imitate Kovaleski, who suffers from arthrogryposis.NBC NewsBy Daniel ArkinNovember 26, 2015Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is under fire after he appeared to ridicule a reporter with a congenital joint condition that limits movement in his arms.At a rally in South Carolina on Tuesday, Trump defended his widely discredited claim that thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheered as the World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001. He then appeared to impersonate reporter Serge Kovaleski, one of the authors of a 2001 article in The Washington Post that referred to "a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks.""Now, the poor guy — you ought to see the guy: 'Uh, I don't know what I said. I don't remember,'" Trump said, as he contorted his arms in an apparent imitation of Kovaleski, who suffers from arthrogryposis.Kovaleski just a day earlier had told MSNBC's Steve Kornacki that he did "not recall anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds, of people celebrating."
Is that presidential behavioral? It is not even school yard behavioral.
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