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    ‘Totally illegal’: Trump escalates rhetoric on outlawing political dissent and criticism | “This is out of the autocratic playbook. As autocrats consolidate their power once they’re in office, anything that threatens their power … becomes illegal,” historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat said.


    ‘Totally illegal’: Trump escalates rhetoric on outlawing political dissent and criticism | “This is out of the autocratic playbook. As autocrats consolidate their power once they’re in office, anything that threatens their power … becomes illegal,” historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat said.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/totally-illegal-trump-escalates-rhetoric-outlawing-political-dissent-c-rcna174280

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    1. cybermort on

      So much for free-speech. Trump and Musk don’t understand free speech. They just want a platform to spread their hate and misinformation but would never tolerate actual free speech, dissent, and criticism of them or their power.

    2. Goal_Posts on

      If you go vote now, we can win this.

      Go vote now. Early voting is probably open.

      Take people with you. Get friends to go. Call people.

    4. bestforward121 on

      The fact that this election is going to be so incredibly close is downright depressing. I’m doing everything I can to help Kamala win, but if we lose to Trump then it’s hard to see how he’s not exactly what America deserves.

    5. Uniquarie on

      If, and I know it’s a big if, he wins, just wait for Project 2025. It will be more than just escalating.

    6. Rangefilms on

      This is why I don’t understand why large media outlets don’t go hard after Republicans. Is it really worth it to lose your access journalism when the stipulation is to abandon fact checks? Is it really in the interest of media conglomerates to softball platform people that directly express it as a goal to remove your broadcasting license?

    9. autotldr on

      This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/totally-illegal-trump-escalates-rhetoric-outlawing-political-dissent-c-rcna174280) reduced by 91%. (I’m a bot)
      *****
      > Donald Trump is ramping up his rhetoric depicting his political rivals and critics as criminals, while dropping a long trail of suggestions that he favors outlawing political speech that he deems misleading or challenges his claims to power.

      > Trump voters have mixed views on revenge Trump rallied a raucous crowd Wednesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, launching personal attacks on Harris and drawing jeers and boos from a sea of red MAGA-hatted supporters as he spoke of the "Enemy from within" – government officials with whom he's clashed.

      > Debbie Hendrix, a Pennsylvanian who attended the Trump rally donning a "MAGA" hat, said she's excited to vote for Trump a third time.

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    11. Roach-_-_ on

      This is the reason I don’t trust polls. Why would I answer a poll in the off chance this idiot gets in and forces them to tell him the phone numbers and who they picked for the polls. Nope nope nope. Just vote

    12. DonsSyphiliticBrain on

      I would love to see this astute legal mind try to take the bar exam, or even a high school level civics exam. It would be hilarious.

    13. recalculating-route on

      This man has never bothered to ask legal experts about any of these claims, much less read the constitution/laws applicable himself. He doesn’t understand what he’s talking about and he doesn’t care. He knows that the people that come to his pep rallies largely don’t care either. When you’re pandering to a group of people who will tell their pastors unironically that the more compassionate teachings of their lord and savior “dont work anymore”, you can assume that they don’t actually give a shit what the law is or what the constitution says or even what the declaration says.

      They believe that whatever aligns with their own personal understanding of the world is what these documents say, because if that were not the case, then they would be wrong and not as patriotic as they’ve been told that they are and they might have to deal with that.

      Orange man will keep feeding that willful ignorance, and the pep rally attendees will keep feeding his ego. It’s a codependency problem, but it’s going to become everyone’s problem.

    14. sergius64 on

      Russians one up it sometimes. Not only do they put people in prison for this – sometimes they even put people into a mental hospital – you must be crazy if you don’t support glorious leader. And that’s all before Novichok and falls from windows.

    15. KrivUK on

      We apes learn nothing from History. The World At War documentary series from the 70’s documented the first and second world wars. Now I am not suggesting Trump is planning to go to war with other countries – yet, but the playbook he is adopting is frightening parallel.

    16. wanderingpeddlar on

      How this can surprise anyone at this point is beyond me.

      He has behaving this way since his first run at office, why would he change now?

    17. Jerswar on

      Watching this from afar is morbidly fascinating. American culture has such a tendency to make a big deal out of their freedoms and their democracy being somehow special. And guns being somehow necessary to maintain both. And yet, they might very well be sailing into a corrupt dictatorship, simply through crooked politics and media propaganda, without a shot fired.

    18. DeadbeatJohnson on

      Boy, there’s gonna’ be trouble when Merrick Garland finds out about this! This will surely be the end of his career.

    19. Kjellvb1979 on

      With all the outright evidence of bribery, combined with our lack of campaign finance regulations (at least a lack of any regs with actual teeth), and money equaling free speech under the eyes of the law, its so clear we are just a feudalistic oligarchy.

    22. da_mcmillians on

      Hopefully people won’t let his supporters slink harmlessly back into obscurity after he’s rotting in a hole. They’re traitors and only traitors would let them get away from their actions.