• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I guess he could be trying to provoke mass unrest so he can declare a national emergency and start shooting people.

    He’s running the Hitlerian playbook. Why do you think he’s engaging in mass persecution of various minority groups? Behind hatred, his real goal is power. If you put the screws on people hard enough, eventually people start setting off bombs and executing reprisal shootings. If you ruin enough people’s lives, some are bound to respond violently. Then you can use that violence to declare an emergency. And as we saw after 9/11, nothing increases a presidential power like acts of terrorism.

    • queermunist she/her
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      35 minutes ago

      But he could just lie, say that people are violent, and then respond violently to the lie he made up.