He’s dropping little clues: The troubling message we are missing from Trump’s MAGA rallies: Trump’s revenge plot remains hidden in plain sight
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/18/hes-dropping-little-clues-the-troubling-message-we-are-missing-from-maga-rallies/
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A snippet from the commentary:
>Donald Trump wants to be worshipped; his followers want to worship him; this should terrify any reasonable and thinking person in the United States who values their freedom and safety, and that of their loved ones and other people they care about.
More Trump droppings. Something new and different.
The color of his skin can’t be healthy. Look at him.
It’s not called ‘revenge’ for responding to being held accountable for your corruption. It’s called ‘retaliation’
I wouldn’t call it “hidden.” Trump is an anti-democratic terrorist and so are his MAGA cultists. I feel they’re actually quite frank about it. Hardly a day goes by without some high-profile MAGA person telling us exactly who they are (for example, just two days ago Kari Lake talked about carrying Glocks for electioneering and Tom Cotton urged that protestors be murdered in the streets).
At this point their entire oeuvre is about open violence while their God on earth blasphemes as he sells them “branded” Bibles. It’s classic fascism from top to bottom.
There is no secret here.
“This election is a choice between the Biden-fascist state or the American republic,” he told his MAGA crowd…”
Notice how Democracy isn’t even an option in this guy’s perverted world view.
Note that Trump’s “revenge” on his enemies is effectively a proxy for his followers’ “revenge” on theirs. The presence of ever more ridiculous conspiracy theories is not an accident, nor is “belief” in them genuine. They are a justification for ever more extreme actions by labeling them as retaliation against an immoral enemy. The more insane these get, the more extreme the actions they seek to justify with them.
In the wider political context, this revenge “plot” is a call for violence and oppression targeted at everyone his followers see as an enemy. Note that this doesn’t have to happen with a practical objective or plan because the harm it does is the goal: to oppress, control and harm their enemies is to have power over them, turning what they see as a moral hierarchy with them on top into a social one. That’s why Trump’s personal revenge resonates so with the reactionary and authoritarian movement that follows him despite it not bringing any real benefits to his followers.
Im so sick of the media’s hand holding and normalization of Trump and the MAGA cult.
“Trump is dropping little bitty baby blue clues! Isn’t it cute!”
“Trump is telling cute little stories about the election being stolen”
No, you complicit both sides playing motherfuckers. Trump is telling lies and inciting violence.
Is saying he will go after his opponents dropping little hints now.
The only people who can’t see that’s what his whole second term would be are deep in the cult or have an agenda like Fox News.
trump’s revenge plot remains ~~hidden~~ in plain sight. There I fixed the headline.
It’s not hidden, and the MAGA DOJ cannot wait to execute his orders.
Lol there is nothing hidden in his plans for revenge/retaliation.
“little clues”? He’s straight up yelling about seeking to jail his enemies and “become dictator for a day”. What on earth does the media need to start calling him out as the fascist he is?
When I read the latest headline about the danger of Donald Trump, I always roll my eyes and say “I know, I’ve known for eight years.” I guess they aren’t talking to someone like me who is constantly online or listening to podcasts that deal with the alt-right. I’m sure there are a lot of people who need to be constantly reminded how bad he is or they will eventually convince themselves he’s not as bad as everyone said.
What the fuck are you on about. We’ve been shouting it from the rooftops for eight years.
Stop making him and his ilk sound more clever than they are. They plainly say that they want an overthrow of democracy, just using more words to soften the blow.
Hey Donnie, the role of a president is not for us to work for you. It’s that you work for us.
Since you’ll never understand that, here’s hoping you never see the inside of the White House ever again.
There’s no hiding. I hate that people act like he’s a criminal genius.
It’s pretty obvious trump will go full dictator if he wins another term. He’s said exactly that lol.
Vote!
it’s only hidden to the media
Democrats and Independents and decent Americans need to wake up. The GOP (not just Trump) is operating in plain sight fully with intention to compromise the 2024 election. They fully intend to replace electors in GOP controlled states if Trump doesn’t win there. They fully intend to disrupt polling locations and mail in votes with every legal and illegal option on the table. They fully intend to refuse court orders on gerrymandering of voting districts by forcing elections to occur with the disqualified districts. They fully intend to lie on national television and have smear campaigns against every major opponent for local, state, and federal offices. They fully intend to do everything they can to ensure the Presidential election cannot be called by the electoral college so that it becomes a vote of the House of Representatives. And even there they intend to interfere with every rule break they can muster.
This isn’t just an election. What’s in front of us is a constitutional crisis, the likes of which we have never faced – at least not since the Civil War
No national leader outside the USA respects the integrity of Donald Trump.
Dude literally talked about having his 2028 rivals arrested.
…if he’s President, he can’t run in 2028.
Not sure how anyone has missed his plans for a despotic revenge tour that never ends?
Media writing cutesy, coy headlines rather than the explicit one that this nation needs.
“Trump again clarifies intent to install himself as a dictator.”
I don’t watch Trump rallies and feel like I know exactly what he plans to do in a second term.
OMG. Look at that face. He looks like a very old man who has smeared baby shit all over his face.
Edit: And, there is nothing hidden about anything in the story. It is in plain sight, always has been. It’s never been hidden at all.
I live in California, where his rallies are nonexistent. Fortunately.
It’s about as subtle as his fake tan
If it’s considered acceptable and appropriate for this deeply flawed man to lead our nation, then there apparently really is no disqualifying amount of corruption and personality faults, because he is literally just about as bad as it gets.
Yes, take Trump seriously.
“Together we are taking on some of the
most menacing forces and vicious
opponents [Democrats are evil]
our people have ever seen. [It’s us
versus them]
They are vicious and they are horrible.
But no matter how hateful and corrupt
the communists and criminals we’re
fighting against may be, you must never
forget this nation does not belong to
them. This nation belongs to you. [I will
help you take our country. If you don’t
fight, you’re not going to get to have a
country anymore].
This is your home. This is your heritage.
[Immigrants have stolen our country].
And our American liberty is your God-
given right. Your God-given right.”
[Calling all racists and Christian
nationalists].
Trump is performative arts with a dangerous authoritarian twist. He is a carnival barker who praises dictators and incites violence, saying “fight” over 20 times at his January 6 speech. And just like any cult, his followers take his comments as direct orders.
Read conservatives’ Project 2025. Take it seriously and vote accordingly. https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Little clues such as broadcasting “I am your retribution”? Small clues Luke that? Who edited this headline Captain Obvious? Fuck MSM and their equally transparent attempts to get clicks instead if protecting the country
“The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic is in danger. Yes! danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without law and order our nation cannot survive.”
Wanna know who said it? Adolf Hitler said it!
And every republican since Eisenhower has endlessly echoed it.
Salon is such trash
The not-so-little clue we shouldn’t forget is this quote: “…[immigrants] are poisoning the blood of our country.”
America in 2024, like Germany in the 1920’s and 30’s:
>”Making fun of “Sleepy Trump” makes people feel good. But the far more important story is Donald Trump’s drive to unlimited power and what he and his followers are going to do when and if he escapes the law and becomes the country’s first dictator.”
I don’t think “I’ll only be a dictator on day 1,” is particularly hidden. Even if he actually meant only for day one.
This is the whole premises for project 2025. Stoke unrest, declare martial law, disarm the public, and start their culling.
It isn’t hidden at all, and the clues aren’t little. He has repeated his revenge messaging on blast for over a year.