All posts tagged "Democracy"

President Donald Trump's speech to hundreds of the US' top generals on Tuesday hinted at plans to cancel the 2028 election, according to Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York.

In an appearance on The Jim Acosta Show on Tuesday, Goldman said the speech appeared to be preparing the ground for an authoritarian power grab.

"It’s also, I think, really dangerous because it is trying to manufacture a crisis so that Donald Trump can continue to take more and more authoritarian actions and so that he can usurp more and power," said Goldman. ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris received praise on Saturday for what some Democrats and Republicans alike deemed a "pitch perfect response" to Donald Trump's "calls to end democracy last night."

Trump on Friday said at a conservative Christian Turning Point event, “You won’t have to do it anymore... it’ll be fixed; it’ll be fine; you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”

Harris' campaign responded on Saturday. ...

Even as Donald Trump faces trials related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president continues to feed his MAGA base the false claims that President Joe Biden and the Democrats coordinated fraud schemes across the country in order to win.

The Associated Press reported in August, "There is evidence that his lies are resonating: New polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 57% of Republicans believe Democrat Joe Biden was not legitimately elected as president."

In a Sunday, May 12 op-ed, MSNBC's Hayes Brown points to the fact that while Trump seeks to run a campaign rooted in those same lies — local and state GOP candidates may suffer....

A cannibalistic serial killer, a Sesame Street puppet, and the bacteria Salmonella: Kevin McCarthy found himself compared to all three, and more, on Wednesday.

The comparisons began after news hit that the former House speaker — who notoriously voted against certifying President Joe Biden's presidential election victory in 2020 — would headline a Georgetown University event next week entitled "How Strong is our Democracy?"

"Was literally no one else available to give this talk?" asked Aaron Fritschner. ...

Those high-profile Republicans who are twisting Donald Trump's "bloodbath" comments to be more palatable are part of the problem, a democracy expert said on Sunday.

Trygve Olson, the author of the Lincoln Democracy Institute's research project, the "Democracy Index," responded to ex-GOP governor Scott Walker's attempt to paint Trump's use of "bloodbath" as using an alternative definition about "economic disasters."

"Clearly, [Trump] was talking about a major economic disaster," Walker said on Sunday....

Jack Posobiec, a right-wing host and activist, told a group of conservatives that their goal should be overthrowing democracy because they didn't get the job done on Jan. 6, 2021.

At a Wednesday Conservative Political Action Conference event, Posobiec welcomed the audience as a panel session began with former White House strategist Steve Bannon.

"All right, welcome, welcome, I just wanted to say welcome to the end of democracy," he announced. "We're here to overthrow it completely, we didn't get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here, we'll replace it with this right here." ...