He’s getting people used to the idea of dictatorship. Here he is today, saying it again.
Don’t worry. He says he isn’t one. It’s just that people want him to be one. So it’s all just fine.
I just watched Politico reporter Rachel Bade say on CNN that he’s right. Yeah it’s true that the statistics are down and all but the vibe is that crime is up so they’d rather have him behave like a dictator than feel unsafe. (Of course the vibe is up with Trump’s voters — who mostly don’t live in cities — because he’s telling them it is and sending in military troops!)
FFS.
The press is helping to spread the vicious lie that people in cities are hiding under their beds because they are so terrified of all the crime — just as Trump wants them to do. In the process they are creating the vibe that they then say is driving our politics even though it’s total bullshit.
This really is one of Trump’s superpowers. He knows exactly how to get the press to be his accomplices. He always survives any onslaught of bad news (with their help) which makes him appear to be invincible and then creates a myth about the country being in a catastrophic decline which they go along with because they’re just “reporting” what “people are feeling.”
This time it is helping him turn the country into a police state. Because of “vibes.”