I'm sure there has to be more than one friend who is sick and tired of me pointing out the red flags, but I just can't help it.

A real tweet, a real thought

Aside from the fact that those who support and love Trump do so because he's taking care of the "common enemies", let me ask this. When can we stop playing apologetics?

That seems to be the game in town at the moment. Trump will say some wild anti-democratic bovine excrement, and his followers have to contort logic to justify the tweet or the interview.

"He who saves his country does not violate any laws"

Why does that sound familiar?

Maybe it's because it's a famous phrase used by a French dictator? Could it be that quoting Napoleon is not a good way to present yourself as someone who represents democratic values?

This is precisely why I say to anyone that would listen that Trump has the making of an authoritarian. The very idea that the end justify the mans is the antithesis of what a Democracy is supposed to look like.

Who else has said similar things? Let's see...

There was Mussolini who famously said:

"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state"

And let's not forget Machiavelli's whole philosophy and his infamous book "The Prince" that explains it with utmost details. The idea being that to secure the prosperity of a nation, nothing was off the table. Absolutely nothing.

But go ahead

And tell me again I'm being dramatic, tell me it's just words, and that I need to check my gut, I expect it at this point.

It's really as he said: He could shoot someone in fifth avenue and not lose any support. He was right back then and proves to me everyday he meant what he said.

MenO