Posted on Dec 4, 2023
'Our society would no longer be free' under second Trump term: former Bush speechwriter
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Frum then argues that, given these stakes, electing Trump to a second term would put America on an historically unprecedented course that has little, if any, blueprint for recovery.
"It would mark the turn onto a dark path, one of these rips between 'before' and 'after' that a society can never reverse," he writes. "Even if the harm is contained, it can never be fully undone, as the harm of January 6, 2021 , can never be undone. The long tradition of peaceful transitions of power was broken that day, and even though the attempt to stop the transition by violence was defeated, the violence itself was not expunged."
..."Frum then argues that, given these stakes, electing Trump to a second term would put America on an historically unprecedented course that has little, if any, blueprint for recovery.
"It would mark the turn onto a dark path, one of these rips between 'before' and 'after' that a society can never reverse," he writes. "Even if the harm is contained, it can never be fully undone, as the harm of January 6, 2021 , can never be undone. The long tradition of peaceful transitions of power was broken that day, and even though the attempt to stop the transition by violence was defeated, the violence itself was not expunged."
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