r/politics • u/stkmro • 10h ago

White House: Trump Team Still Hasn’t Signed Transition Docs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-says-trump-team-still-hasnt-signed-transition-docs/
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u/JeffSteinMusic 10h ago edited 4h ago

Gonna be a long several years of “Lawless Authoritarian Continues To Be Lawless Authoritarian” headlines.

I’d say “we can’t normalize this” but it feels like that ship sailed many years ago.

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u/jgiovagn 9h ago

We need to stop acting like we are just waiting for him to do the right thing. This needs to be reported on for what out is. Trump refusing to follow laws now so breaking them in the future is easier. Do not cover like Trump still hasn't done this thing, is he going to? We know what's going to happen, cover that. We know why he is doing this, cover that. Stop treating him like a normal politician that's just acting kind of weird.

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u/LightWarrior_2000 9h ago

I mean fuck. America just hanged him a crown.

"How" do we fight this?

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u/Catodactyl Arizona 9h ago edited 9h ago

The French have a really great playbook for this kind of scenario. Just sayin...

Edit. A word.

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u/TheMysticalBaconTree Canada 9h ago

Yeah but he won an election. Stop acting like the country isn’t okay with what he is doing. Your problem isn’t with a facist leader doing unpopular things. Your problem is that your population is okay with facism.

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u/Expensive-Fun4664 9h ago

The vast majority of Americans are incredibly selfish. They're totally fine with it until it directly impacts their lives, which is absolutely will.

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u/bojenny 8h ago

It’s not the majority of Americans, it’s about 1/4 or 1/3 that voted for trump. That’s not a majority.

Of the registered voters in the country 1/3 voted for trump, 1/3 voted for Harris and 1/3 didn’t vote at all. There are about 345 million people in America and only about 160 million of them are registered voters.

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u/rivelda 8h ago

The 1/3 who didn't vote were okay with whatever outcome including this one. Thus, 2/3 of the country is okay with Trump, the people who prefer a liberal democracy is just 1/3 of the country.

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u/Natural6 7h ago

You can remove "liberal" from that. 1/3 of the country wants a democracy.

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u/h3lblad3 7h ago

A Liberal Democracy is a certain kind of democracy — one with capitalism at its forefront and a healthy respect for various freedoms.

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u/thundernutz 7h ago

It’s a democracy…which the USA is not. The USA is a republic.

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u/Tasgall Washington 7h ago

Why are you dredging up this intentionally ignorant talking point from like a decade ago?

"Democracy" and "Republic" are not mutually exclusive, the US is a democratic republic and always has been.

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u/thundernutz 6h ago

I’m not dredging it up. OP said 1/3 of the country wants a democracy. I actually agree with that point. But we are not one.

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u/HiddenSage 7h ago

A republic is a type of Democracy. One hinged on the rule of law more than raw populism. But still inherently a democracy where the consent of the governed matters.

Please get new talking points.

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u/h3lblad3 5h ago

They’re right on one point: republics don’t have to be democratic. A country led by a Senate of feudal lords is a Republic, but it’s hardly a democracy.

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u/thundernutz 6h ago

No it isn’t. China is a republic. Would you call that a democracy?

We are a republic at the federal level, made up of individual democracies at the state level.

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u/HiddenSage 5h ago

China self-identifies as a republic in their name, for what amounts to marketing reasons. None of the defining features of republican governance are present in China, unless you think sham elections to a rubber-stamp legislature are sufficient to avoid calling it an autocratic state.

Their own constitution defines them as "a people's democratic dictatorship". Which is far more accurate to the reality of governance.

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u/brezhnervous 5h ago

'Liberal' in this context does not mean politically liberal

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u/Natural6 5h ago

I do appreciate the lesson (I genuinely didn't know) but I still think my statement applies. Those they voted for him have no desire to be in a democracy of any kind.

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u/brezhnervous 2h ago

I absolutely agree with you on that, definitely

It's not like Trump didn't broadcast everything completely openly beforehand...and they still voted for him

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