If Americans vote for Donald Trump, Rolling Stone magazine says democracy will end and dictatorship will take its place.
The writers for Rolling Stone, Tim Dickinson, and Asawin Suebsaeng, use the weakest scare tactics to say that if Trump wins, there will be death by shooting squads, constant police brutality against his opponents, and the start of American tyranny.
In their 5,000-word rant, the writers say that if Trump beats Kamala Harris, “America will meet a Trump unleashed, a man whose darkest urges will not be checked by ‘adults,’ causing possibly catastrophic results for the American experiment.”
The crazy story says that J.D. Vance is like Benito Mussolini, that Trump’s immigration plan is like putting Japanese people in camps during WWII, and that Trump is like “Filipino strongman Rodrigo Duterte.”
Rolling Stone says that at least half of the people who will vote for Trump in November are either crazy demons or stupid fools who don’t know any better. This is similar to how Hillary Clinton described Trump voters in 2016: as a “deplorables.”
“Trump has made himself into the figurehead of a group revenge dream for his supporters,” the writers write.
It makes you wonder what the writers think of their readers if they believe that making a bunch of ridiculous threats will get people to vote for Kamala Harris.
The main point of the piece, if it has one, is that Trump’s first term was mostly good because he had people around him to check his “darkest ambitions.” If he wins again, there won’t be anyone to check his “darkest goals.”
In the words of Jason Stanley, a professor, “other people were the only thing that kept him from being a full-on tyrant. We know that’s not going to happen again.”
The story says that if Trump were to run for a second term, he would “supercharge fossil-fuel production, and pull every lever of power he can, and seek autocratic power to fulfill his authoritarian desire.”
