Will the 2028 election even happen, or are we watching the slow-motion rehearsal for its cancellation? Every signal from Trump’ s orbit points to a deliberate strategy to turn fear, chaos, and manufactured crisis into political weapons.
History tells us how these stories end. From John Adams jailing his critics under the Alien and Sedition Acts to Nixon’ s troops gunning down students at Kent State to crackdowns by Orbán and Putin, authoritarians have always wrapped repression in the language of patriotism.
Today, with talk of“ domestic enemies,”“ rapid reaction forces,” and“ nuclear demonstrations,” the groundwork is being laid again, not to protect America, but to control it.
Why is it that dictators and wannabe dictators— both historic and now Trump— always attack their own countries’ people while saber-rattling about war against other countries?
Back in 1964, Americans were worried that Barry Goldwater— with all his anti-communist rhetoric— might start a nuclear war with the USSR. Lyndon Johnson exploited that with his famous“ Daisy” advertisement, where a little girl plucked petals off a flower as the countdown to a nuclear bomb sounded in the background. In the end, over video of a nuclear bomb going off, Lyndon Johnson’ s voice says:
“ These are the stakes: to make a world in which all of God’ s children can live, or go into the darkness. We must love each other, or we must die.”
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