An ex-MAGA activist warns “no civic savior is coming” as Donald Trump’s cognitive decline becomes undeniable

What if Donald Trump defeats President Biden and takes control of the White House in 2025? He has already announced his plans to become the country’s first dictator, and to launch a reign of terror and revenge against his so-called enemies. As detailed in documents such as Project 2025, Agenda 47, and elsewhere, the infrastructure is being created right now to put Trump’s neofascist plans to end multiracial pluralistic democracy in effect on “day one." The so-called resistance will not have the courtesy of ramping up or mobilizing to stop Dictator Trump’s onslaught. It will be a “shock and awe” campaign visited upon the American people.

Dictator Trump’s reign of terror will be made even worse by the fact that as shown during recent speeches, interviews, and at other events he appears to be encountering severe difficulties in cognition, language, and memory.

In a series of recent conversations with me here at Salon, Dr. John Gartner, a prominent psychologist and contributor to the bestselling book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” has issued this warning: “Not enough people are sounding the alarm, that based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented. In fact, we are seeing the opposite among too many in the news media, the political leaders and among the public. There is also this focus on Biden’s gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden’s brain is aging. Trump’s brain is dementing.”

  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    9 months ago

    Because not all sheep deserve to be slaughtered. There’s a lot of people who vote out of fear because they don’t know any better. It’s the Republican party that needs to be done away with.

    • xantoxis@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      I think it’s important to clarify here that “the Republican Party” (see also: “the GOP”) refers to the party leaders and political figures. It doesn’t (usually) refer to the voters, although you might hear “Republican consituency” or “Republican voters”, or even “Republicans”. But “the Republican Party” is generally agreed to mean the leaders, or the organization that presents them as leaders. I think you agree with that point because you seem to be making the same clarification in your last sentence. My comment, and the article headline, are referring to this group.

      I think I agree with you that the sheep don’t need to be slaughtered, although they are going to need some very tough medicine.

      The people who led them to this point? No mercy.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      exactly.

      Whether we like to believe it or not, no one is the villan of their own story. I won’t deny that the Republican party courts the worst of the worst types of scumbags around us, but their propaganda machine gets so many people in so many different ways.

      They managed to get my otherwise amazing gay cousin to vote for Trump by his displeasure with the Israel/Palestine conflict (this was well before the current genocide) The media he was consuming framed everything in terms of Democrat support so he was lead to believe the Republicans have the “compassionate” resolution. He votes against his own well being because of propaganda… :(

    • Crikeste@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      9 months ago

      The Republican Party simply represents the voters, they’d get no votes without that.

      So no, they don’t deserve mercy. The average conservative voter is the very reason we have this problem to begin with.

      Politicians need someone to represent. They found it in America’s racists and nationalists.

      • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        9 months ago

        Yes, but part of the Republican strategy is to distort the truth or history using lies. They may have found what they want or need in America’s racists and nationalists, but not until they pumped them full of misinformation first.

    • alyth@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      Bollocks. Anyone who still supports Trump after 6 January 2021 knows exactly what they are signing up for.