Means of Dealing with Folks Like Us.
A feature, not a bug.
In that Playboy article he said he thought Gorbachev didn’t have a strong enough hand and expressed disgust for the Tienanmen Square protesters,”when the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world.” His admiration for Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un is well known.
Nothing all that surprising there. Been pretty obvious for a while now that Trump’s an authoritarian who thinks the main problem with this country is that he is not yet its despotic, all-powerful ruler.
The main thought that prompted this diary, though: is there any reason to doubt that at least a substantial proportion of Trump supporters would likewise love to see the likes of me “dealt with” in similar fashion? That, indeed, that’s central to his appeal?