Supporters absorb former US presidentās strategy of inverting accusations against him and turning them on his accuser. To his fans, Trump is the saviour of democracy
Snow was falling, lightly dusting the tables full of āJesus is my savior, Trump is my presidentā and āFight for Trumpā and other āMake America great againā regalia. Still, in subzero temperatures, people waited in a long and winding line on Saturday for a chance to see their greatest showman.
Donald Trump, the former US president, was about to hold the biggest campaign rally yet in New Hampshireās primary elections, where victory would put him within touching distance of the 2024 Republican nomination ā and trigger renewed warnings that democracy itself will be on the ballot in November.
But his ardent supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, saw things differently ā 180 degrees differently. In their view it is Joe Biden who acts like an autocrat and Trump who is the saviour of the constitutional republic.
Honestly I just see this all as a case for the abolition of the office of president.
There should be government ministers who each attend to the leadership of various necessary departments, and the necessity of a leader in crisis should be a position created during that state of crisis and then nixxed on its resolution. Also, there should be redundancy, both for the sake of making sure someoneās always able to step into a vital role, but also for accountabilityās sake making sure no one person can sign orders to conceal information which would serve the public interest better in the open.
Such governments are usually not agile enough during a crisis, where there needs to be immediate action.
Unless youāre saying you want an unelected person making the decision to activate the military and ārespondā to a bunch of hicks with 3rd hand rockets and drones?
Iām saying that unless for some reason itās absolutely impossible to make happen, the intervention in that crisis should be lead by the minister Congress chooses to be the eye on the military or on homeland security.
If weāre so incomprehensibly fucked that we need someone large and in charge then Congress should recognize the need and appoint a crisis minister to address the issue with their authority but also with regular reports on the status of the crisis and their work to address it.
Not to mention how the very idea of the state of emergency has its roots with one of the leading lawyers of the third reich, and was specifically invented as the legal grounds for which a dictator should be allowed to just ignore any accountability to other authorities.
The actual circumstances that warrant having one guy able to give all the orders are a VANISHINGLY rare occurrence compared to the instances where someone insists thereās such a crisis because there being one means they get to waltz in and take over and make everyone just shut up and deal with it.