Democracy will be decimated if Donald Trump triumphs in US election

Optimistic types are predicting that on Tuesday it will be no big deal.

Their view is that for all of the ’s bluster the last time he turned the White House pillowslips orange, he didn’t do too much damage because implementing his maddest of visions.

I’d love to agree but this time it feels very different. In 2016 he trusted the Establishment which thwarted him. This time he’ll ride roughshod over it.

The fear seems to be that from day one he will fire balanced Washington staff and replace them with MAGA disciples who will put his ambitions above the constitution while going on a vengeance mission against opponents he calls “the enemy from within”.

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He won’t wait long to drop all charges against himself and pardon all criminals involved in the January 6 assault on the Capitol. Then he’ll get round to mass deportation of millions of undocumented citizens, reverse anti-climate change legislation, tighten up abortion laws and deliver tax cuts for billionaires, like his new pal Elon Musk, at the expense of the poor.

Freedom of the press will be under threat. We’ve already seen Washington Post journalists forced by owner Jeff Bezos to overturn the tradition of endorsing the Democrats in case Trump wins and wreaks revenge on Amazon.

The worst fear revolves around a document his core base has primed to go called Project 2025, which vows to turn the US into a right-wing, Christian-run dictatorship. Think Gilead in the Handmaid’s Tale.

So worried are many observers that there has been a debate raging as to whether Trump is a Hitler clone. His former Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, has called him a “fascist” who he’d once heard praising The Fuhrer. Another general, who served under his presidency, Mark Milley, called him “fascist to the core”, which Trump denies.

Former defence secretary Mark Esper claimed Trump suggested launching Patriot missiles into Mexico to “destroy the drug labs”, and when protestors took to the streets after George Floyd’s murder he asked, “Can’t you just shoot them?”

Few can argue that he doesn’t adhere to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels’ view that: “If you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Plus the only foreign leaders he admires – Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un – are tyrannical dictators.

All we know about his thoughts on the decimation of Palestine is that Benjamin Netanyahu is “doing a good job” and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, believes once all citizens are removed, Gaza could be “very valuable waterfront property”.

So should we be worried about a twice-impeached, convicted felon with fascistic tendencies becoming President? Isn’t that America’s problem? Well, apart from the small matter of the US President being the leader of the Free World, there’s a saying that when America sneezes, Britain catches a cold.

And listening to the ugly right-wing dog-whistling of the two candidates scrapping to be Tory leader, not to mention the men at the top of the far-right Reform Party who are confessed MAGA disciples, plus the outpouring of racist hate that polluted our streets in August, I’d say we should be very concerned.

So, dear Americans, can you please do your duty to humanity on Tuesday by booting the Great Orange Grifter into the garbage can of history?

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