Trump's Threats To Become A Dictator After Election Cannot Be Ignored

Donald Trump has been increasing his use of fascist language in his speeches, but that's nothing compared to the actual plans that his team is working on should he retake the White House. In addition to creating an "army" of loyal public servants and lawyers, Trump has also said that he would use the Insurrection Act to root out enemies of the country. That doesn't mean extremists from terrorist cells hiding in the country - it means people like you. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains why we need to take these threats seriously.

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In addition to his increasing use of fascist language, I mean basically borrowing phrases from Adolf Hitler himself. Donald Trump has also made it clear that he's not just talking like a dictator. He definitely wants to be a dictator if he gets back into the White House. He has announced plans to use the Insurrection Act. He has said that he's gonna lock the prosecutors investigating him in mental institutions. He's gonna have mass deportations, ideological screening for migrants coming into this country. All sorts of horrible things that you only see in, you know, dictatorial, fascist regimes. And that leads us to yet another question. This one from, uh, granny Bis. Me too. Who asks, do you think that voters are not taking seriously Trump's threat to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office and put people in camps? Do you think that this may be the reason that Tuberville is deliberately holding up so many military leadership positions?

Uh, it could be, you know, on the Tuberville front, that's definitely an interesting theory. Um, honestly, I think Tuberville isn't smart enough to look that far ahead. Uh, he doesn't seem like a smart guy at all. So he is probably just doing it because he's an idiot. But the Insurrection Act, hell yeah. And what people have to understand about the Insurrection Act is that this is not just Donald Trump saying, I'm gonna evoke the Insurrection Act so that we can get rid of the extremists here in the United States. We got terrorist cells from other countries coming in here. No insurrection under the Insurrection Act would be anything that is, of course, a threat to the federal government. Well, labor unions, you could skew that to the fact that they're a threat against the federal government. I mean, if you're a right wing ideologue, you would absolutely call them a threat to the government.

And under the Insurrection Act, Trump would have the authority to get rid of these people, lock them away. Same thing with environmental activists. Hell, Trump could also argue that about the celebrities in Hollywood that don't like him, or the late night comedians that constantly make fun of him. He could do it to, I don't know, a host here at Ring of Fire. He could do it to a viewer of Ring of Fire. He could do it to people who are mean to him on Twitter. That is a very real threat. It it, it's not a make believe thing. This isn't hyperbole. This is what Trump has said he's going to do. So, you know, to your question, do I think people aren't taking it seriously? I don't think people are taking it seriously. And I think they do need to take it seriously because he's seriously said it And it drives me crazy when people are like, ah, you're overreact. It's not gonna happen. He said it's gonna happen. Like I know the dude lies all the time. But at the same time, when it comes to saying he's gonna punish a group of people, he typically follows through on that. You know, we are vermin in his mind. We are vermin in the eyes of his supporters. We also know the

Project 2025, you know, the Heritage Foundation is working on that form. They're literally in the process. According to a recent report from Axio Axios of, of pre-screening, thousands of Trump loyalists.