Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

Let's be clear, Trump's only interest in dismantling any part the government is to be handed the keys to it and to tear down the guardrails that keep the United States a Republic. It's no theory either, he tried carrying out as much of this as he could during his term, with multiple 'saturday night massacres' and deep manipulations of agencies that are ordinarily autonomous from the White House, like the DOJ (NYT), both under Sessions, and Barr (NPR), and as part of the autocoup attempt (PBS). Trump wanted no part of dismantling a 'deep state,' he wanted deep control over the state.

There's undoubtedly a lot of people who fall for the QANON lunacy but don't realise that it's the source of that lunacy because it aligns with what they believe already. Similarly, others will try and keep a distance from it while pushing it's narrative because they know it invalidates all their arguments (which are usually based on it).

I'm sure there is some sort of left equivalent, but it doesn't seem as mainstream (or is it?!…)

Trump's VP was effectively chosen by Peter Thiel, Trump also intends to give a role to Elon Musk. Basically it's one step further than lobbying, he's just letting the mega wealthy make the decisions.

where did I say he was?

A heads-up: Trump will give a speech focusing on immigration in about 30 mins in Wisconsin. It's a smart strategy, as the electorate trusts Trump to manage this important issue much more effectively than Harris. He should continue to focus on it. Enjoy!

I'm sure he'll have a nice xenophobic rant. He might bring up Hannibal and pet eating nonsense etc.

Will he mix up asylum seekers and mental asylum patients again?

Why not call it the administrative state in the first place instead of deep state? It's a fact of life that no-one can be everywhere at once, including the POTUS, and that some powers therefore need to be delegated. So, it's interesting to me that you would choose to lead with the term 'deep state' when you have to know from following US politics that it's a politically-charged term that implies a degree of nefariousness.

Trump is on record as saying that he will - day one - reinstate his 'schedule F' executive order, that will place all federal employees under direct control of the president and give him the power to expunge the government of 'rogue bureaucrats'.

Now, hopefully you will understand that the concern here is that Trump will define 'rogue bureaucrat' as any department head with the gall to disagree with Trump on matters of policy, regardless of who is on the right side of the argument. That is tyranny.

The other thing is that Trump is a man promising to root out corruption despite being demonstrably corrupt and wont to act in his own self interest with a complete disregard for internal stability. He's recorded on the phone attempting to extract extra non-existent votes from the Georgia Secretary of State. He's implicated in the plot to return fake electors. He's on video tape calling the Georgia Secretary of State an 'enemy of the people'. He's on video tape saying that if he lost 2020, it would be because of rigging. He's been convicted for using campaign funds to pay off a potential detractor from his 2016 campaign.

We could go on and on. There's no evidence in his demonstrated character that he would wield, let's say, 'enhanced' executive power in a wise and fair way. This is a man who proudly touts a mugshot of himself scowling right down the camera and posted a word cloud about himself with 'REVENGE' in red at the centre of it.

Not that there would be much of a countering argument to these points. There can't be. They're not for Trump because they believe these points to be incorrect. These aspects of Trump are a feature, not a bug, for them. They'll just not really argue the points and hope Trump wins so they can say, 'Haha, suck it'. And if doesn't - back under the rock.

I suppose projection may be a mechanism of shutting out/down criticism of oneself.And it is so ludicrously easy to do,especially if you have majored in creating convenient alternative realities.

Name a Trump policy about immigration, just one.

Weird and offensive

Completely on track for Trump. Not the first time he's mocked disabilities:

But but have you guys not seen Kamala's facade at the border or her most recent word salad? Both candidates are just terrible aren't they?

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