Comments by "Voix de la raison" (@voixdelaraison593) on "Trump speaks to reporters ahead of Kentucky rally" video.
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Litmus test. How to know if your president is a potential Authoritarian Threat (Dictator) to Democracy:
1. Rejection of (or weak commitment to) democratic rules or norms.
Examples.
Q. Do they reject the Constitution or express a willingness to violate it?
Q. Do they suggest a need for anti democratic measures banning certain organizations, or restricting basic civil or political rights?
Q. Do they attempt to undermine the legitimacy of elections, for example, by claiming unverifiable mass voter fraud.
2. Denial of the legitimacy of political opponents.
Examples.
Q. Do they describe their rivals as subversive, or opposed to your presidential powers.
Q. Do they claim that their rivals constitute a threat, either to the country or the prevailing way of life. Such as calling opponents socialists or communists?
Q. Do they baselessly describe their partisan rivals as criminals, whose supposed violations disqualifies them from full participation in the political arena.
Q. Do they baselessly suggest that their rivals are secretly working in alliance against you?
3. Toleration or encouragement of violence.
Examples.
Q. Do they have any ties to armed militias, paramilitary forces, white supremacy groups, etc?
Q. Have they encouraged, or suggested, mob attacks on opponents?
Q. Have they tacitly endorsed violence by their supporters by refusing to unambiguously condemning it?
Q. Have they praised (or refused to condemn) politically violent state actors in the past or currently?
4. Readiness to curtail civil liberties or voting rights of opponents, including the media?
Q. Have they supported laws or policies that restrict civil liberties, such as expanding defamation laws, or laws restricting protests, criticism of the government, or certain civic or political organizations?
Q. Have they threatened to take legal or other punitive action against critics in rival parties, civil society, or the media?
Q. Have they praised repressive leaders or actions taken by repressive leaders?
If the answer is yes to even on of the above questions then you have a wanna be Dictator on your hands.
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