Trump is escalating his anti-democratic rhetoric. It's time to listen

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump has for a good while now claimed that America has been "invaded" by immigrants, and is an "occupied" country.
55% : So what's a democracy-loving American, Republican or Democrat, to do?You have to listen to Trump.
44% : Donovan contends Trump is "borrowing" strategies from the regime of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.
44% : Trump wrote this week on his Truth Social site.
43% : In Congress, in state governments, in local election boards, MAGA believers are being asked to prepare to contest the election -- operating on the notion that fraud is inevitable, and Trump needs their help.
42% : Because they can't let that happen," Trump said.
40% : It is urgent that we listen to, and understand, what Trump is saying -- even when we'd rather not.
39% : Speaking to Fox host Maria Bartiromo about the possibility of violence after the election, Trump claimed America's greatest threat is "the people from within," who might have to be dealt with by force.
38% : A study she did recently looked at the legal filings of Jan. 6 rioters, and found that 20% of them went to the Capitol because they believed Trump had asked them to go.
36% : Though it hadn't been widely reported yet, Trump had by then already started his brutal systemic policy of forcibly separating children from parents at the border -- a tactic meant to deter families from coming to the U.S. without documentation, but which left thousands of parents with no way to reunite with, or even locate, their kids.
34% : What if Trump isn't preparing to rain down big-"F" fascism upon us?
32% : Donovan points out that, like Trump, Duterte "demonized the 'dregs of humanity,'" to convince people that a strongman, unafraid to step over boundaries of law, was the only way to save their country from catastrophic destruction.
28% : Silly me, because this week Trump has escalated his rage-filled and violent rhetoric to such an alarming level that we can't allow our deer-in-the-headlights defense to keep us from calling it out.
26% : North Carolina and Springfield are disturbing proof that even if many of us don't take Trump seriously, too many others do.
24% : I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered -- and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell OUT OF OUR COUNTRY," Trump wrote on social media last week.
19% : If we don't pay attention to the lies Trump is telling about FEMA, we can't understand how significant it is that a lone man with a gun is threatening aid workers.
18% : In 2018, many of us (apparently about 50% of us) found it distasteful when Trump referred to El Salvador, Haiti and some African nations as "shithole countries" and began experimenting with the rhetoric that Black and brown immigrants were dangerous.

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