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To: Sdgla who wrote (1248666)	7/21/2020 10:37:06 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584071

"the next 5 years will be very difficult for Dems" It ain't gonna be EZ picking up after Trump. He's killed 145K Americans so far, and ?50 million jobs. Gonna need a lot more food stamps.

To: Sdgla who wrote (1248666)	7/21/2020 10:53:42 PM
From: puborectalis	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584071

But when I heard Trump suggest, as he did in the Oval Office on Monday, that he was going to send federal forces into U.S. cities, where the local mayors have not invited him, the first word that popped into my head was “Syria.” Listen to how Trump put it: “I’m going to do something — that, I can tell you. Because we’re not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore and all of these — Oakland is a mess. We’re not going to let this happen in our country.” These cities, Trump stressed, are “all run by very liberal Democrats. All run, really, by radical left. If Biden got in, that would be true for the country. The whole country would go to hell. And we’re not going to let it go to hell.” This is coming so straight from the Middle East Dictator’s Handbook, it’s chilling. In Syria, al-Assad used plainclothes, pro-regime thugs, known as the shabiha (“the apparitions”) to make protesters disappear. In Portland, Ore., we saw militarized federal forces wearing battle fatigues, but no identifiable markings, arresting people and putting them into unmarked vans. How can this happen in America? Authoritarian populists — whether Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Vladimir Putin in Russia, Viktor Orban in Hungary, Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Poland, or al-Assad — “win by dividing the people and presenting themselves as the savior of the good and ordinary citizens against the undeserving agents of subversion and ‘cultural pollution,’” explained Stanford’s Larry Diamond, author of “ Ill Winds: Saving Democracy From Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency.”