Martin Gurri: "Why All This Trump Hysteria?" or: Trump Is No Authoritarian

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I find the age argument interesting (Gurri: no authoritarian has seized control when older than middle aged).

   Since you want to hear it over and over again, my basic view is:

• Trump is way over the line, and has no business being President.
• The American left is delusional about Trump; he's nowhere near as bad as they think.
• Trump sure sounds like he could collapse into authoritarianism, but that's not how he governed. 
• The Alliance of Evil between the insane radical left and quasi-liberal elites is a far greater threat.
• Trump has their number--at least to a great extent--and will combat them.
• Any plausible Democrat candidate will advance their agenda.
• In fact, Trump was a surprisingly good President.

Like Greenwald, I have been reduced to slack-jawed incredulity by the Alliance of Evil's accusations that Trump will use to courts to prosecute his enemies in a second term. The complete lack of self-awareness of these people...it...I...what can one even say...?

   You might say: Trump went to war against the quasi-liberal elites last time, and got his ass kicked. He is still getting his ass kicked nearly four years later. Yes, but IMO the big difference is: Trump recognizes them as the enemy (speaking in political terms--they are Americans after all), Biden does not. Trump will fight them, Biden is one of them--well, not one of them...but a tool of them. Now Trump realizes that it really is him or them. If he doesn't move the ball significantly downfield against them, he will never know another moment of peace, and may well end his life in prison. Worse, the Alliance of Evil will go after his family as well.

   I could be wrong, of course.