The irony of Trump's message
How can a man who doesn't respect or abide by the rules of a game expect to play in it? Any umpire or referee would eject such a person from the game in the blink of an eye. Why legitimize a candidate who won't accept nor even admit a loss in a free and fair election as Trump has done since 2020?
Trump's participation in the 2024 election should be barred. His refusal to acknowledge his legitimate defeat in 2020 should be enough to disqualify him from running in 2024.
His twisted logic is that he hopes to win, justify and pardon himself and assume dictatorial powers above the law.
Trump's guilt for conspiring to overturn the election in various ways, culminating in a bloody attack and invasion of the Capitl on Jan. 6, is reminiscent of Hitler's tactic that allowed him to become a dictator in the 1930s. After of series of bloody demonstrations by his Nazi brown shirts, he forced the members of the Reichstag (German parliament) to grant him the power to run the country. Are the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers ready to see themselves as Hitler's Brown Shirts? Dupes of a wannabe dictator?
Incidentally, Hitler's propaganda machine also invented the technique of the Big Lie. Don't let it become his springboard to power.
Marion J. Reis
Lombard