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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by tirant on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:08AM (#42060886)
As a non-American, how does Donald Trump seem to oppose democracy?

That is the message continuously published here by generalist German newspapers, but I cannot find any substance behind it.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by simonask on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:33AM (#42061247)
I'm also not American, but how can this not be obvious to you? Start with the January 6 coup attempt.

Here's a list, though: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/29/trump-dem...

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by wholinator2 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @10:52AM (#42064163)
Where's the chart? I can only see the first paragraph
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by chuankl on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:28PM (#42066904)
Try this gift link to the article: https://wapo.st/3CeK2hk
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by nobody9999 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:31PM (#42070559)
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by ttyprintk on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:43AM (#42061368)
He has said all these things:

- the Constitution needs suspending

- he needs extrajudicial purges

- vote counting shall be stopped at a particular time. Officials in charge of the mechanics of democracy need to be pressured explicitly about this.

- the peaceful transition of power needs to be interrupted

- expectations held together by norms hold no value. The very tradition of democracy is optional.

It might be irrational to spend effort voting —engaging in democracy— to elevate someone so skeptical of it. And your newspaper and even in this thread people are extremely polite about those doing so.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:58AM (#42062355)
- Media that criticizes him should lose their broadcast licenses (ABC, CBS) or shut down (Google).

- The Federal Reserve should do what he says rather than be independent.

- Military generals should be as obedient to him as German generals were to Hitler.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by bluesnews on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:46AM (#42061420)
He generates doubt around the election result "if I lost, it is because of fraud" and provoked a group of people to attempt the overturn the previous election. Plus more subtle things like election rule changes that reduce democracy in the background.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by Bluescreenbuddy on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:55AM (#42061532)
>but I cannot find any substance behind it.

Then look harder or shut up.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by tirant on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @08:30AM (#42061984)
That is exactly what I am doing, looking harder by asking people around.

Your attitude es not helpful.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by p_j_w on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:29PM (#42065804)
You've been given multiple lists and have refused to engage with them. This doesn't sound like intellectual honesty.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by ordu on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:04AM (#42064355)
I personally came to this opinion when he declared previous elections rigged without any evidence. The election institute and its fairness is a cornerstone myth of a democracy, you cannot destroy it without ruining the democracy. If the election institute is corrupted there is no way to have a legitimate president. You can have only tyrants and dictators after that. It means that you are not anti-democratic you can oppose the election institute only if you know it is corrupt. But Trump didn't know, I'm sure he knew that the elections were not rigged, and yet he attacked the elections.

I was not sure, because I had a hypothesis that Trump is just stupid and do not understand what he is doing. But before the current elections he talked a lot how he is going to abuse power to persecute political opponents, or just any opponents, if we believe his words, he is going to persecute everyone he doesn't like.