{UAH} Will President Trump attempt to become a dictator?

Roland Temmerman, masters Social Sciences & Political Science (1990)

The answer is yes!

Donald Trump speaks the larger language of tyranny. That language loves death and guns and exclusion. Its accents can be heard at rallies where the cheers are joyless and primal, the slogans full of hate, the speeches filled with retaliations. It is the language that replaces humor with mockery, strength with repression, justice with vengeance, freedom with control. It is the distancing language that transforms entire peoples into things, paperboard cutouts, cliches neatly packaged in stereotypes easy to dispose, exclude, despise and even kill.

It is the simple language of simplistic solutions to complicated problems for people who don't want to think. It is the hypnotizing language of the charismatic leader who divides the world into opposing factions called them and us. It is the language of the shortcut that hides the lie behind a single word or phrase that gets repeated over and over and over until it becomes a kind of truth, a facile truth, an alternative truth.

It was the language of Hitler, of Stalin, of Mussolini and Mao, and it is the language of Donald Trump. It is the language that is adopted sooner rather than later by everyone in servitude to Trump if they expect to survive. Men and women who lose their stomach for the rapacious course of the language of tyranny are quickly replaced by the vicious ambitious from below.

It first begins as the language of quibbling technicalities, of hairsplitting, of spin. When questioned it responds with smouldering undertones of anger, anger fuelled by outrage that looks forward with hopeful anticipation to the day when it can have its interlocutors jailed or even murdered. Until then it responds resentfully, arrogantly.

George Orwell warns us where it ends. The language of tyranny starts down many paths from many directions but it has only one destination. "If you want a vision of the future," Orwell cautions, "imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever."

A leader needs to be neither competent nor wise in order to successfully employ the language of tyranny. He need only be evil. Donald Trump is an evil fool who has embraced the language and habits of the tyrant. His success is a consequence not of skilful leadership but of the contagious virulence of that language. It has spread like the Black Death among craven Republicans. Trump has millions of gun-carrying followers ready to harm or even murder people Trump doesn't like, and so any who would oppose him also fear him.

Should Trump receive a second term there will be little to stop him. He will no longer even need to pretend to be serving anything but himself because he won't be running for reelection. That is when he will become Donald Trump at his most dangerous. We simply cannot afford to let that happen. There is one force and one force alone that can stop him. Not one man, not one woman, but we the people, united as a single, consolidated, monolithic, unstoppable force of voters. We are the only force on earth that can bring him down

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