The former president, in an interview on Fox News, declined to back away from his comments and repeated his argument that if he’s elected, “the country will be fixed” and their votes won’t be needed.

The weirdo is being really explicit that the Republican party is going to convert the country into a Guided Democracy — a form of dictatorship where elections are held but how people vote doesn’t impact who holds power — much like Russia is today.

  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
    841·
    3 months ago

    It’s actually worse than the headline suggests. He was explicitly asked to clarify it in the context of “people are saying you want to subvert democracy”. He then refused to and repeated the statment

    Can’t claim it’s “just a joke” or taken out of context when the context is someone asking you if you plan to subvert democracy

    From the article:

    "It’s being interpreted, as you are not surprised to hear, by the left as, well, they’re never going to have another election,” she said. “So can you even just respond —”

    Mr. Trump cut her off, claiming again that Christians “vote in very small percentages,” and digressing into how he would change voting practices.

    He then repeated his statement from Friday once more, saying his message had been: “Don’t worry about the future. You have to vote on Nov. 5. After that, you don’t have to worry about voting anymore. I don’t care, because we’re going to fix it. The country will be fixed and we won’t even need your vote anymore, because frankly we will have such love, if you don’t want to vote anymore, that’s OK.”

    • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
      275·
      3 months ago

      Annoyingly that “we’ll have so much love” addition, combined with the weird claim that Christians don’t vote much, actually does make me more willing to think he means that he’ll have done such a good job and the GOP will be so beloved, that the “small” % of Christian voters won’t be necessary for wins anymore, so they won’t need to worry about voting, it will still be a shoe-in without them.

      Still ludicrous claims across the board of course, regardless.

      • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
        351·
        3 months ago

        Why give the benifit of the doubt when this is a repeated pattern across his statement

        When asked to denounce claims of him being a dictator, he said he’s “only be a dictator on day one”

        He keeps making these statments. When someone shows you who they are, believe them

        • misterdoctor@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 months ago

          Why give the benefit of the doubt when this is a repeated pattern

          This is exactly it. Trump is very good at saying just enough so that we know what he means and his followers know what he means while maintaining plausible deniability when confronted with his own statements.