Trump ripped his 'national emergency' move straight from the playbook of a dictator

[babylonsister]

Trump ripped his 'national emergency' move straight from the playbook of a dictator
By William C. Rempel
Feb 14, 2019 | 3:20 PM


President Trump’s insistence that border security justifies a state of emergency is a tactic ripped from the playbook of another unpopular and frustrated president — the democrat-turned-dictator Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines.

The messianic Marcos, who claimed in his diary to be doing God’s bidding, took things a lot further than Trump has threatened to do. He imposed martial law nearly a half-century ago, thereby crippling the oldest democracy in Southeast Asia.

But his devastating emergency action — installing himself as dictator to fend off an invented insurgency threat — came from the same well of self-serving motivations and ego-driven politics that feeds Trump’s less menacing wall tantrums today.

As fellow narcissists risking constitutional showdowns for personal political advantage, their similarities are alarming enough to justify a closer look.

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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rempel-trump-marcos-parallels-20190214-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1iQwcSpds0YtTP6MJ-wC5jQsWs9z5FGMg9wIafiMik9lyArqlAftmwvOc

[standingtall]

1. Next up national emergency to cancel national elections

if they can get away with it.

[bdamomma]

3. He cannot get away

with this and we should not do this

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Or from Hannity's op-ed on Wednesday.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjo8aXxg7_gAhXGHDQIHa57DlIQzPwBegQIARAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org%2F2019%2F02%2Ffox-news-sean-hannity-dictated-trumps-national-emergency-plan-and-his-next-demands-are-even-more-frightening%2F&psig=AOvVaw32p8gn3xOyWAMwnVeR-IeJ&ust=1550364478340089

[UniteFightBack]

4. It's too bad he gave that terrible press conference where he admits he is just using this

declaration so he can 'do it faster' and he didn't have to do it. I mean sometimes yes he is really fucking STOOPID.