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November 9, 2016 Headlines Published by Trump Media, Inc.

Trump's Only Constitutional Belief

Fine articles from here and here.

First, watch this short video with much in Trump’s own words here… then the main article follows:

Just like the old Vietnam era “Buffalo Springfield” song “Somethings Happening Here” says here in part:

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

At an October 11 rally (my birthday, oddly enough) in Newton, Iowa, VP candidate Gov. Mike Pence (R-IN) was confronted by a woman calling for a revolution – her name was Rhonda and she said this:

“I’m on social media all day, every day, non-stop since last June pushing Trump and one of the biggest things I can tell you that a lot of us are scared of is this voter fraud. I’ll tell you just for me, and I don’t want this to happen, but for me personally, if Hillary Clinton gets in, I’m ready for a revolution because we can’t have her in.”

This is not the first time Trump fans have threatened to take action if their candidate loses in November. Such threats date back to the primaries, when some Trump supporters began telling reporters that they would take up arms and form militias should their racist, sexist hero face defeat. The calls continued into the general election, when they were echoed by Trump advisers like Roger Stone, who proclaimed that there would be a “bloodbath” if Trump loses. On August 1, following a crash in the polls, Trump himself proclaimed that the election was rigged, a claim he has repeated constantly since.

In Trump’s universe, it is very easy to tell if an election is rigged, no proof required. An election is rigged if Trump loses. An election is fair if Trump wins. This is the same logic that propels Trump’s selective embrace of the polls, as he touts the right-wing sources which say he is winning as legitimate while deeming any poll showing he is losing to be invalid. Those other polls, he implies, are part of the conspiracy.

Scholars of authoritarian states have seen this pattern before. Paranoia is not only a trademark of an authoritarian leader, it is a method of movement building — one that is playing out at Trump rallies across the nation.

As scholar Jonathan Bach writes, “The more paranoid a ruler becomes, the more essential it is that others share the ruler’s system of delusions and conspiracies … The successful paranoid ruler will make the people share his paranoia, and they will feed on it together.”

Is that what we see practically every day now, hear in every Trump speech, followed by his ardent supporters shouting: “Put her in jail, or Lock her up.”

So, hang on tight – it is going to get very rough ahead and yes, no one knows that outcome. One thing for sure: Trump thrives on this. Is it a quality for a man who wants to be president? More like this case for a man who would prefer to be dictator and a one-man show.

Bottom Line: This may be the first time in history at least in our elections, where a candidate claimed the outcome where he lost (which is not even occurred yet) will be rigged. Astonishing to say the least. So as I said, hang on tight.

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