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31 Dec 2023, 9:44 pm
I have a very real fear of his followers/supporters. We saw what happened when he lost the first time, I am very concerned about what will happen if he loses again or if he actually is expected to face any real consequences.
s**t is going to hit the fan.
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31 Dec 2023, 9:47 pm
It certainly is, but I don’t think it’s likely to be comparable to what happened in Nazi Germany during WWII.
I’m pretty sure people made similar predictions when Trump was initially elected AND when he was seeking reelection. Catastrophizing seems to happen during most elections now that I think about it. 
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31 Dec 2023, 10:00 pm
I’m pretty sure people made similar predictions when Trump was initially elected.
He’s spent two more years radicalizing cult 45. After he loses and/or gets convicted he’s going to be all too happy to turn his nutjob loose and watch America burn if he can’t have it.
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31 Dec 2023, 10:02 pm
I’m pretty sure people made similar predictions when Trump was initially elected. Catastrophisizing seems to happen during most elections now that I think about it.
I don't recall in detail, but I don't believe people were anticipating a dictatorship 8 years ago, as they do now.
Some certainly were.
6 million Jews died during the Holocaust. Having Trump as President again would seriously suck, but I don’t think it would be THAT extreme.
Why not? America has already been more extreme when it comes to murder and genocide.
America’s founders murdered nearly 100 MILLION indigenous people over a span of a century and a half or so in a near complete genocide. Hitler modelled his killing spree after them.
Who’s to say what’s already happened here before can’t happen again?
Perhaps people who’ve forgotten this history.
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^ Who’s forgotten it? 
That stuff happened a long time ago and doesn’t say much about modern society in America.
I suppose time will tell. I’m not saying bad things won’t happen; they will. I just do not foresee it being as bad as some are claiming. There’s perhaps something in-between nothing and the Holocaust.
When people make predictions and they don’t come true, no one ever says: “I was wrong about that.”
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31 Dec 2023, 10:18 pm
That stuff happened a long time ago and doesn’t say much about modern society in America.I suppose time will tell. I’m not saying bad things won’t happen; they will. I just do not foresee it being as bad as some are claiming. There’s perhaps something in-between nothing and the Holocaust.
It’s kind of a pointless debate. When people make predictions and nothing happens, no one ever says: “I was wrong about that.”
Were not predicting the Holocaust.
Were predicting the end of American democracy. If Trump is relected he will become a Latin American style dictator. One percent as bad "the Holocaust" but even one percent would be a catastrophe.
Out system of checks and balances is already strained to the limits by the effects of the first Trump administration. And his big lie, and trying to steal the election.
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31 Dec 2023, 10:20 pm
That stuff happened a long time ago and doesn’t say much about modern society in America.I suppose time will tell. I’m not saying bad things won’t happen; they will. I just do not foresee it being as bad as some are claiming. There’s perhaps something in-between nothing and the Holocaust.
It’s kind of a pointless debate. When people make predictions and nothing happens, no one ever says: “I was wrong about that.”
Were not predicting the Holocaust.
Some have said that that it would be no different to Nazi Germany if he happens to be elected. I suppose I should’ve stated that.
I very much hope that he’s not elected, but I don’t think something equivalent to Nazi Germany is likely.
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01 Jan 2024, 4:18 am
Of course they will, if Trump keeps losing them elections.
They’ll worship trump as long as the cult followers have a hard on for the orange guy. Even if trump dies they’ll pander to his base with fake tears and all that BS.
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