How to make sure Trump or anyone like him never, ever returns to power

[PSPS]

How to make sure Trump or anyone like him never, ever returns to power

Defanging the most toxic elements of the Trumpian right would benefit the world as well as the United States. But it’s up to his opponents to devise strategies to make that a reality

One silver lining of the pandemic now unfolding around the world is that it could spell an end to the age of right-wing populism. With his handling of the coronavirus crisis, Donald Trump has single-handedly shown the dangers of entrusting the levers of state to narcissistic right-wing showmen.

According to polling numbers, he is not only on course to lose the elections, but may also flip the Senate in favour of the Democratic Party.

Democrats in Washington are already whispering about setting up an agenda for a post-Trump era. Even Republicans, sickened by Trump’s missteps – such as recommending the injection of disinfectant to cure Covid-19 – are looking ahead.

Social-distancing measures have thus far prevented the equivalent of a Yalta summit to plan out steps for the post-populist order, but in phone conversations and Zoom sessions, some key players have begun making plans. Wish lists include tightening campaign-finance rules, giving teeth to oversight rules that Trump has flaunted, reforming immigration, and tightening laws requiring candidates to disclose their financial records.

The rest: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-coronavirus-reelection-us-democrats-biden-fox-news-a9496276.html

[sop]

1. Sort of like Denazification, but we'll call it DeTrumpification.

"Denazification was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of the National Socialist ideology (Nazism). It was carried out by removing those who had been Nazi Party or SS members from positions of power and influence and by disbanding or rendering impotent the organisations associated with Nazism."

[KPN]

2. The single best thing they could do to avoid

it again in the future is review his presidency for actual illegal acts and hold him and his accomplices accountable with the harshest penalties allowed by law. Everything else will fall short without this.

[Voltaire2]

3. exactly

if Trump et al are given a pass on prosecution "in the interests of bipartisanship" we will have a repeat real soon.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Yes, accountability is key & keep political appointees from interfering w investigations & reports.n

[Midnight Writer]

4. The UK needs to deal with its own right wing populism.

Hopefully, we will deal with ours soon.

But it will never end.

It will, like a virus, just return in a different form.

[rickford66]

5. Require candidates to read the Constitution out loud publicly at least once.

Just so there's no misunderstandings.

[Jim__]

6. Never, ever is a long time.

Fascism seems to be gaining popularity in some parts of Europe. 100 years may be longer than effective human memory.

[Chainfire]

7. The world has always had to deal with trumps.

It was just our turn. What is now important is what are we going to do about him.

The larger and harder is what are we going to do about the people who elected and still support him? Trump is more of a symptom than a disease.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. I wish the 4 best paras were excerpted, not the front tease. . . . nt

[Ford_Prefect]

10. I think the GOP has only begun to see just what they are going to have to live down.

If the party has a future at all. IMO there are no GOP in office worthy of trust. They lost that privilege when they went full rogue over the evidence during the Impeachment. Not One asked if it could be heard, let alone if there was any possible truth in the charges. Not One voted against Trump's actions regarding Immigration, withholding aid from Puerto Rico, Funding and Building a wall the DOJ, the intelligence community, and Dept of Interior all said wouldn't function as claimed, could produce environmental disasters, and was an enormous boondoggle to pay for.

There are quite a few GOP voters I have doubt about as well...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. It's been allowed to fester for years.

No opposing voices of reason to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, and others, after the Fairness Doctrine was scrapped.

Hitler and the Nazis didn’t “invent” the scapegoating of Jews either. The ideas were spread by media outlets for decades, with the more sane people in Germany mostly ignoring it.

[JI7]

12. call out white racists and stop making excuses for them

like the economic anxiety bs

[Skittles]

13. doesn't mention Electoral College

that has given us two nitwit "presidents" in recent memory?

[machoneman]

14. Stop voting in brain-dead Republiscums to high office. Any office for that matter!