The leading GOP candidate for president shared the article on Truth Social when he “retruthed” a post from Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL).

He’s coming right out and saying it. What more do people need? You’ll be safe if you’re a white, cishet, Christian man. Anyone else who helps this guy into office could be potentially signing their own death warrant and he’s coming right out and admitting it. Promoting it.

  • ArbitraryValueEnglish
    1531·
    1 year ago

    I’m not telling you to be charitable. I’m saying that the words “explicit acknowledgement” actually mean something, such that this isn’t an explicit acknowledgement.

          • ArbitraryValueEnglish
            16·
            1 year ago

            The question isn’t whether he’s against democracy (which he is IMO) but whether he explicitly said that he’s against democracy (which he didn’t).

              • ArbitraryValueEnglish
                23·
                1 year ago

                I think having correct knowledge is important for its own sake - if in fact he didn’t say it, I don’t want to have the incorrect belief that he said it. I also think that understanding what beliefs Trump and his supporters actually have is useful for understanding what they’re doing and what they might do in the future. Know thy enemy and all that…

          • ArbitraryValueEnglish
            24·
            1 year ago

            What he’s saying doesn’t make much sense, even in context.

            From that day on our opponents, and we had a lot of opponents, but we’ve been waging an all-out war in American democracy. You look at what they’ve been doing, and becoming more and more extreme and repressive. They have just waged an all-out war with each passing day.

            Snopes believes that Trump misspoke, and that he meant to say that his opponents are waging a war on American democracy. I suppose he could also mean that he’s waging a war against his opponents in the context of American democracy. But I think it’s fairly clear that he isn’t saying that he’s the one waging war on American democracy.

            • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I mean it’s not the first time he has said gibberish lol. I like being accurate if I can. Appreciate the snopes link.

              I think in the context of his previous actions and the GOP Project 2025 that his and his party’s intentions are clear enough for most folks. I might have given him the benefit of the doubt in 2015 early on but within a couple months it was clear to me what he was all about. I just wished others had figured it out and voted accordingly. Ah well.

              It will be interesting to see if Americans have learned anything since then or if we still have the collective memory of goldfish.