NYT: Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It

Thursday, May 01, 2025

Mr. Trump has the potential to do far more harm in the remainder of his term. If he continues down this path and Congress and the courts fail to stop him, it could fundamentally alter the character of American government.

Posted by lee_the_agent at 02:31 PM | 10 COMMENTS | permalink

The Daily reconvened Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and me -- we did an extensive series together in 2023 and 2024 on the policy stakes if Trump returned to power -- to analyze his first 100 days. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/p ...

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-- Charlie Savage (@charliesavage.bsky.social) April 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM

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"Democracy is when the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."

-H.L. Mencken

#1 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-05-01 08:01 AM

We did that in 2020. We elected biden to stop this madness. His job was to prosecute the fascists who attempted a coup, but he was too busy being a delusional corporate moderate DNC democrat, worrying about the names fascists would call him if he prosecuted their crimes.

Now it's game over. We don't get anymore real elections to fix this.

#2 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-01 02:43 PM

Hard to take the Times seriously on this when they went out of their way to sane-wash Trump whenever possible during the last campaign.

#3 | Posted by qcp at 2025-05-01 02:58 PM

DEATH TO TYRANTS AND THE QUISLINGS WHO SUPPORT THEM

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-01 03:41 PM

Keep this up Progressives.

You wont win another election for 50 years.

Keep trying to stop the other 50% of the nation from having their voice heard IN OUR REPUBLIC, NOT DEMOCRACY.

It's not going to end up good for you.

#5 | Posted by boaz at 2025-05-02 07:46 AM

Keep licking those boots, fascist

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-02 08:00 AM

"IN OUR REPUBLIC, NOT DEMOCRACY"

Fascists always bring up this most important and sensible point. /sarcasm

#7 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-02 08:02 AM

It's not going to end up good for you.

#5 | Posted by boaz

This fool thinks fascist dictatorship is going to work out well for him.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-05-02 12:12 PM

In law, sedition is generally defined as conduct or speech that incites rebellion or resistance against the lawful authority of a government. It's a crime that involves inciting or attempting to incite individuals to disrupt the established government or its operations

#9 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-02 07:39 PM

Sedition's definition has a pic of J6 Rioters and Stephen Miller's Fake Elector Ballots next to it in the Dictionary.

www.commondreams.org

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-02 07:47 PM

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