Who will stand up to Trump's bullying?

GOP leaders won't stand up to Trump's bullying of them

"So, if you ever want to get things to get better, then, at some point, you have to pick a spot to take a stand. And a week out from probably the most contentious, the most divisive, and the most important election of all of our lifetimes, that would be a really great spot to take that stand."
Episode 159 - Standing Up to the Bully
In this episode, I try to get to the bottom of why more GOP and conservative people aren't speaking out about the very real danger of what a second Donald Trump presidency would do to this country.
Griff Sombke
Oct 28, 2024
26:48–27:15

...but if he loses the election, he may go to prison (and then he couldn't directly threaten anyone?)

Agreed, and the jail part is crucial. If Trump doesn't win, he has to stay politically relevant to stay out of prison -- that's why he's running now, that's why he'll keep running until he stops breathing.

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— Filipe Campante (@filipecampante.bsky.social) October 7, 2024 at 8:47 AM

See my article: Trump is running to stay out of prison - Oct 25, 2024 - 5-min read

Stand up to fascism. Just do it

"Let’s take the last big challenge of this century, fascism. How to solve it? Well, how did we do it last time? We passed hate speech laws and made it illegal to belong to fascist organizations and made an International Criminal Court. All of that took decades, by the way — the ICC wasn’t set up until the 90s. If we wanted to take our fascists on, we would simply have to begin by using these institutions. America is a case study in getting it wrong. It never signed up to the ICC — and so today, genocide is being committed in concentration camps. Hardly a suprise that you end up run by fascists when you won’t sign up to laws outlawing them, duh."
Umair Haque, The Age of Needless Catastrophe, Eudaimonia and Co, September 5, 2021

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"Trump is a bully you can topple with your little finger," says Timothy Snyder. "Or at least with the hand that casts the vote."