“The guy is not a democrat with a small d,” the president told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
President Joe Biden said in an interview Wednesday he is all but certain Donald Trump, his predecessor and presumptive 2024 rival, will reject the results of the November election and called Trump “dangerous” for the nation.
“The guy is not a democrat with a small d,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett during a visit to Wisconsin this week.
“How many court cases do they have, Supreme Court cases? They’ve all said this is a totally legitimate election. … He may not accept the outcome of the election? I promise you he won’t. Which is dangerous.”
The president went on to say other world leaders had expressed to him their fear of a second Trump presidency and pointed to Trump’s pledge to prosecute his political opponents if he enters the Oval Office once more.
What Trump understands intuitively and most of the country still does not, is that fascism usually is not a fixed state but a project of gradually, constantly deteriorating rights.
Trump will never be satisfied. When things reach a new low, it will only enable Trump to aim even lower. That’s why he won’t accept even the results when he wins. To his mind, he always deserves more power and less accountability, and he will keep shifting reality towards those ends. That’s why we never had a moment of peace during the first Trump presidency. Our standards kept falling, and somehow we still couldn’t keep up.
In another Trump presidency, it will be exactly like the first, in that everything will constantly be getting worse. Because he is a narcissistic sociopath, and it will never be enough. He’s the perfect vessel to dismantle democracy. That’s the power of Trump, what makes the threat so unique and terrible.