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former reagan official robert kagan calls a possible trump second term a possible path to a dictatorship. and another quote says it could plunge the country into a constitutional crisis. and this weekend, donald trump heard this and tried to flip the script on all of this, and what do you say? >> well, that is right, kate. one of joe biden's biggest arguments against donald trump is that a second trump term would be bad for democracy as we have heard, and trump is being charged for trying to overturn the democratic processes, and he is constantly questioning the legitimacy of elections which are democratic institution, and at one point he called for the termination of the constitution, but now he is trying to flip the script saying that it is joe biden who is bad for the democracy and using an argument that we have heard him say before saying that before the indictments before him are joe biden's way of using department of justice essentially to attack a political opponent, and that opponent being donald trump. take a listen to what he said. >> joe biden is the destroyer of american demo

and right there is columnist robert kagan. isn't that what we're going to get, we're going to make trumpn hungary, mode's scenario in india, what it looks like, what it will look like in america. she turned out to be right when she said that we were joining. it’s sad both from the music and from what’s happening on the screen, it’s somehow uncomfortable to even joke. what do you think about biden's cognitive abilities? cognitively, he is not in very good condition, but we should not joke about this, this is serious, we are dealing with nuclear weapons, this is not funny at all, i said. you shouldn't joke about it, it's true, you actually called me and said, it's not funny, it's not for trump to be so scrupulous, it’s just that no jokes can keep up with the diversity of american political life, he’s running in place. biden came to nevada to talk about a familiar, seemingly winning topic: the construction of a railroad from los angeles to las vegas, which could go wrong, but it did. trump’s like-minded people in congress are already working hard to make his second term more productive and,

that is an opinion piece by washington post editor at large robert kagan.ontinues, with those who balked at resisting trump when the risk was merely political oblivion suddenly discover their courage when the cost might be the ruin of oneself and one's family? we are closer to that point today than we have ever been, yet we continue to drift toward dictatorship, still hoping for some intervention that will allow us to escape the consequences of our collective cowardice, our complacent, willful ignorance, and, above all, our lack of any deep commitment to liberal democracy. kagan's editorial is part of a series of alarms that are nearing a crescendo ahead of the 2024 election. judge michael luttig, one of the most prominent conservative voices written an opposition to donald trump, arguing it's not too late. he is leading the american bar association's task force to american democracy alongside jeh johnson, president obama's security, secretary of homeland security. the goal here is to outline meaningful steps that could be taken to preserve and protect our

in his new op-ed, robert kagan said a trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable because, until nowans and conservatives have enjoyed relative freedom to express anti trump sentiments. all of this will and once trump win super tuesday. do you think that is a legitimate concern? that gop critics could be silenced? >> i think that they likely would be. that is certainly what history has shown us. bob kagan it's someone that's been sounding the alarm about donald trump for years. he was one of the original people to write a very powerful piece back in the first trump campaign morning that this is someone who has otto craddock tendencies he argued he could be a fascist. what we are seeing here, pay attention, according to bob kagan. it could be worse than the second term because he will not have checks in the system, there will not be anyone in the republican party he stands up to him because he will prove that he is the dominant force in their party despite 91 felony counts, despite the indictments, despite everything else. robbie kagan's point was saying that he will be able to get ar

and right there, columnist robert kagan, husband of the notorious victorialand, with a washington post column about that the republican candidate turns into julius caesar, into a dictator. it will not be a dictatorship with concentration camps and martial law overnight. isn't that what it is? we 're going to get, we're going to get trump to borrow the orban playbook in hungary, the modi playbook in india, what does that look like, what will it look like in america? fox cheney was right when he said it. it’s sad both from the music and from what’s happening on the screen, it’s somehow uncomfortable to even joke. what do you think about biden's cognitive abilities? cognitively, he's not in very good shape, but we shouldn't joke about it, it's serious, we're dealing with nuclear weapons, it's not funny at all. “i told sean , you shouldn’t joke about this, it’s true, you actually called me and told me, it’s not funny, it’s not that trump is so scrupulous, it’s just that no jokes can keep up with the diversity of american political life, running in place. biden came to nevada to talk about

this is what will happen in 2024, god forbid, he comes, there are neoconservatives, some, like robert kaganand even the vice president of the united states, they are already practically saying that it is necessary to remove him, that is, they can physically remove him, because if he comes, then the whole speaking... the structure that was built by the united states will collapse. i agree with generdi tiranovich that the united states needs to talk, but unfortunately, there is no one, yes, at the moment this will not work, because we can come to an agreement with this administration, and there with trump, and through another administration will come in 4 years, which means we are laying out this entire list of our agreements, and we will say, you confirm, no, yes, we cross it out, you confirm, no, we cross it out, because that's exactly how it works. and the fact that trump is coming, i am very much for trump, i would really vote for him, because he would destroy america in 4 years, here is another administration, even worse than kamalo, kamalo, to unfortunately, it ’s unlikely that she will

other people are starting to look at it more specifically, things we have seen in the last day, robert kagan, like caesar, trump wields a clout that is based on unswerving personal loyalty of his army of all lowers, will his presidency turn into a dictatorship? the odds are pretty good and then the atlantic, you mentioned, trump what arrive with a much better understanding of the systems vulnerabilities, more willing enablers and toe in much more focused agenda of retaliation against his adversaries and impunity for himself when people wonder what another trump hold, their minds underestimate the chaos that would lie ahead, it's the point you made about people who were there who were putting guardrails on, those people are like i'm not coming anywhere near plus trump has a better understanding because he had never been in office, i also add that no opportunities have been taken to restrain the powers of the presidency. we have had these warnings growing in recent years especially under trump of the insurrection act which is vaguely worded and seems to give the president a lot of power to cal

former reagan official robert kagan is calling a second trump term a clear path to dictatorship in the united states. and former speechwriter for george bush david frum said it would instantly put the country in a constitutional crisis. and liz cheney said that if trump wins, he'll never leave. so what is donald trump's response to in? it is not me, but it is president biden that democracy should fear. we go over to kristen holmes, and hearing from liz cheney this morning saying that if you vote for trump, it is the last election you could vote in. so what is this urgency that you are hearing from the republicans? >> well, if you are talking to the republicans on the campaign trail that i do, it is more and more likely that donald trump is going to be the republican nominee, and what you are seeing is the republicans who are not supporting president trump coming out to talk about what the trump agenda or the second term would look like, and that has been joe biden's biggest argument against another trump term, and he has said that if trump is to be re-elected, it is a threat to democra

that's robert kagan, a former reagan official writing in the "washington post."econd trump term would instantly plunge the country into a constitutional crisis, more terrible than anything seen since the civil war. that's david from, a speech writer for george w. bush writing in the atlantic. "the new york times" writes this morning, quote, donald trump has long exhibited authoritarian impulses, but his policy operation is now more sophisticated the buffers to check him are weaker. so sometimes you can tell what donald trump views as political vulnerabilities because he simply tries to flip the script. this is what he said about president biden this weekend. >> joe biden is not the defender of american democracy. joe biden is the destroyer of american democracy. >> cnn's kristen holmes is in washington this morning. there seems to be this growing rumbling from around the political spectrum paying very close attention to donald trump and the possibility that there could be a second trump presidency. >> reporter: that's right, john. there is a lot here. we can star

in an essay for the washington post, editor at rge robert kagan warns us to, quote, stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality. there is a clear path to dictatorship in the united states, and it is getting shorter every day. i have an all-star panel here to kick things off tonight. barbara f. walter he's a professor at uc san diego, and an author of how civil wars start and how to stop. them kimberly atkins stohr is an msnbc political analyst and a columnist at the boston globe, and co-host of the #sistersinlaw podcast. charles coleman he's an msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. it's great to see all of. you barbara f. walter, i will start with you, as an expert in authoritarianism. what goes through your mind when you see the former president, someone who could return to the white house in 2024, with realistic chances, admit that he wants to be a dictator, at least from day one of that second term? and at this point, he is not even trying to rule out as -- to go after his enemies and his opponents. how do you interpret all of this? >> this is classic want to

dictator comes from a recent washington post op-ed by editor-at-large and warm, rising bread dough, robert kagan. he warned that america is headed the way of the roman republic, writing, "indicting trump for trying to overthrow the government will prove akin to indicting caesar for crossing the rubicon, and just as effective." yes, trump is just like caesar, except history will never associate him with salad. not all republicans are on board with trump's one-day dictator idea. caesar salad. not all republicans are on board with trump's one-day dictator idea. yesterday, mitt romney offered a homespun analogy. >> you know, when i was a kid, there was something called a gumball machine. you could put a penny in, and a gumball would come out. it was automatic. there was no filter. put in the penny, out came the gumball. donald trump is kind of a human gumball machine, which is a thought or a notion comes in, and t comes out of his mouth. >> stephen: trump is not a gumball machine! gumball machines give you the same thing every time: gumball. with trump, you put in a penny, one time, it's a gumball.

in a gripping opinion essay in the washington post, columnist a new conservative scholar, robert, kagantrump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. the twice impeached, four-time indicted on 91 counts former president wins the job back in 2024. president biden has been issuing similar warnings for months about the -- 2020. last, night on the campaign trail and i, why he went full skill projection by making this claim about president joe biden. >> joe biden is not the defender of american democracy. joe biden is the destroyer of american democracy. >> sure. bass michael and new jersey general, christine todd whitman are with me. governor, your reaction to that accusation on president biden. >> it's ridiculous. i, mean president biden, what do you like him or not, thinks he should be the next nominee of the democrats is really immaterial right now because right now, he is keeping the country together, keeping our allies overseas together, that is doing some really good things for the economy, if you look at what's happening with inflation, gas prices are going down, the trouble, is this

my washington post colleague, robert kagan, has a brilliant essay online right now with the headline,rump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. we should stop pretending. former congressman liz cheney shared similar thoughts, in a cbs interview airing tomorrow. listen. >> he's told us what he will do. it is very easy to see the steps he will take. people who say well, if he's elected, it's not that dangerous, because we have all of these checks and balances. don't fully understand the extent to which the republicans in congress today have been co-opting. one of the things we see happening today is sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the united states. >> neil. do the american people yet fully understand what's at stake next year? >> i don't think they do. i think everyone should read the kagan column. i think everyone should listen to liz cheney. you know, basically, this goes back to our founding. alexander hamilton in 1790, said the following, quote, when a man on principled in private life, desperate in his fortunes, bold in his temper, it seemed to mouth the hobby horse

washington post editor robert kagan is arguing that criminal charges won't be enough toop a second trump term or a trump dictatorship. let me read you from that. the likeliest outcome of the trials will be to demonstrate our judicial system's inability to contain someone like trump, and incidentally, to reveal its impotence as a check should he become president. that is a dark view. your thoughts? >> well, it is a dark view, and i'd like to think that we're better than that. i'd like to think that we're a country that still has a functioning criminal justice system that's capable of holding this president accountable. he's been indicted four times. we have judges who have cases underway. some, perhaps, more speedily than others. but ultimately, i think it's fair to say that where country that is bifurcated when it comes to our political candidates. and, yes we sometimes do have these vestiges where there's criminal accountability for someone who has straight off the path. but ultimately, it's the job of the voters to hold candidates accountable in our system of government. and so, regard

at the end of last month, robert kagan, another large for the washington post, published a lengthy piece warning about the increasing inevitability of a trump dictatorship. in response to kagan's piece, the republican senator j.d. vance of ohio sent a letter addressed to attorney general merrick garland and the secretary of state antony blinken, seeking an investigation into kagan, a journalist. vance, by the way, none of the names being considered as trump 's running mate has ice president, according to a recent report by axios. by the way, the journalist isn't the only one warning about the erosion of democracy in america, the former congresswoman, liz cheney, offered a lot of sharp criticisms about how america's, quote, sleepwalking into a dictatorship. but cheney is just warning about trump, she is concerned about her entire parties growing subordination. she even went as far as to say, quote, it's so important that the republicans not be in the majority in 2025. it's a pretty remarkable statement from someone who was a senior member of house republican leadership. cheney understands

in a "washington post" op-ed, robert kagan describes how a trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitablehe win the presidency next ar. kagan writes if trump does win the election, heil immediately become the most powerful person ever to hold that office. not only will wield the awese powers of the american executiv he will do so with the fewest constraints of any ent, fewer even than in his own first term. "the new york times" expands on at warning, writing, forces that somewhat contained his autocratic tendencies in his first term, staff members w saw their job as sometimes restraining him, a few congressional republicans ep cally willing to criticize or oppose him, judges in federal courts, including the supreme court, who sometim ruled against him would all be weaker. as a result, trump and his advisers, more extreme policy plans and ideas for a second term would have a greater prospect of becoming reality. and further blaring the siren about what could lie ahead in just over a year, "the atlantic" just launched a special issue devoted entirely to the threat that a second trump presid

but suddenly, they saw the stories, and robert kagan, also in the washington post.vitable. this is horrible. what should we do? and i think the, what should we do part is the right answer. and i don't think it's inevitable. and i do think that we are in a period of time we are just saying, like, we are coming up to holidays, so a lot of people are checking out. and i'm hoping to check out in the next week or so. but people who care a lot about democracy, and people who give money to and sometimes work for a good progressive and democratic candidates, they have been sitting back for a while. and i think that i hope that this alarm has caused them to focus on january 2nd, and what am i going to do in terms of volunteering, sending money, funding different groups that i think are really playing a critical role. because that's what we did in 2017. and we beat him. we beat him. and we can beat him again. we just can't afford passive a t or complete hopelessness. and i was afraid i was seeing some of that earlier in this week. >> i think you can appreciate that the challe

columnist robert kagan writes this, let's stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality.h to dictatorship in the united states, and it is getting shorter every day. i want to bring in rick wilson, former gop strategist, cofounder of the lincoln project and author of running against the devil, a plot to save america from trump and democrats from themselves. rick, as always, it's a pleasure. do you share, and i feel like i know the answer to this question, do you share the same bleak vision that was laid out in that washington post article? >> robert hagan is a sunny optimist. i believe that what trump is saying is meaningful. i believe that what trump is adhering, adherence, followers, and millions who go to the government if he is reelected have in mind is much darker than any of what trump is saying. there's a whole movement on the all right and the radical reactionary right to essentially do what they call the red seas are, where they want to replace a democratic elected president in a constitutional republican with what is essentially an authoritarian. and this appeals

we saw robert kagan's article in the washington post the other day.ok at what he says i'm gonna be. he thinks that's a compliment, right? why would we ever let this man within a mile of the white house? we should not let him back in if they ever put his portrait in the basement, maybe in the peacock the down in the bunker. we shouldn't ever let this man anywhere near and i think the other part too, about a guy like comer, that james brought up, these are the kinds of people you get in an organization, in a movement like maga. they are all mediocre. they're all morons. they have no opportunities for advancement except under someone like donald trump. you see the loyalty odes, they're gonna make people think. when they say i want to these deconstruct the administrative state, that means i want to take away all the things that helped americans, and i want to increase the things that control americans. and that's what all this is about. it's about control and at the end of the day, again, with all due respect to those democratic governors, this is about m

that is why senator vance said that robert kagan, wrote the atlantic piece, sorry, the washington post trump dictatorship being inevitable, they want him to be investigated. this is why when trump sued cnn, i was named in the lawsuit for having written an op-ed that expose the methods of his propaganda. and what authoritarians want is for you to feel like you have to self censor so that nobody will write about this anymore. insolvency, and you make the autocrats drop easier for him. so that is another reason to keep speaking out. >> yeah, you've made this point before on the show. and barton, that is kind of interesting, because it's relevant to all of you whose names on the front of that letter. cash patel said that part outlined. he said we will go after the media. the story is not about us as reporters or the media, but it is about society, right? when you talk about, it he said, we will go criminally or civilly after the media when we're back in power. it is this concept of, we are not joking, we are going to clean things up, we will do things our way. this is not going to be about

we can guess, it’s come to this, well, caesar was stabbed to death at one time, well, it’s true robert kaganopinion , simply had the opposite effect, in any case, i definitely didn’t expect, ivan alekseevich, that the majority of senators would vote against considering the issue of assistance to ukraine, they didn’t just vote against it, they voted against consider this issue, and 51.49 in the senate, where the democrats have a majority in the party... biden, here is chuck schumer, the leader of the democratic majority in the senate, said: if the republicans cannot achieve bipartisan agreement on immigration reforms, then they should not respond by blocking aid to ukraine, this would be madness, absolute madness, it would be an insult to our ukrainian friends who are fighting with their lives against the russian autocracy, which could be a turning point for them if the west does not will fulfill its obligations. ronald reagan would be turning over in his grave if he saw that his own party allowed vladimir putin to roll across europe. and i must say that it had an effect on me too an indelibl

at the end of last month, robert kagan, and other large for the washington post, edited a lengthy piece about the increasing availability of a trump dictatorship. in response to kagan's, because ohio senator j.d. vance sent a letter a few days ago addressed to attorney general merrick garland secretary of state, antony blinken, seeking an investigation into kagan. a journalist. vance, by the way, is one of the names being considered as trump's running mate, according to a recent report by axios. kagan is far from the only one warning about the erosion of democracy in america. trump's open admiration for autocrats and strongman tactics have caught the attention of a broad swath of people, just a few weeks ago, the economist declared that trump, quote, poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024. in a recent media blitz for her new book, former publican congressman liz cheney has given a lot of sharp criticism about how america is, quote, sleepwalking into dictatorship. she's even gone as far as to say that it is quote, so important, the republicans not being the majority in 2025, which

. >> joe, reading the articles that you described, one significant article was robert kagan's in "the washington post" over the weekend. it basically said, "we are on the road to dictatorship." what i found myself asking, what i'd ask my colleague, anne, is what americans, and, in particular, u.s. public officials should do about it. these warnings increasingly are specific and, i think, have to be taken seriously. that was the point of kagan's article. this is coming at us. we either act or we'll live with the consequences. you've thought a lot about this. you're one of the best writers on these issues of preserving democracy. what would be a list of things you think people should do now to prevent this disaster from happening? >> so there's a range of things depending on who you are. you know, if you're an ordinary person, you can join a civic organization. you can work on behalf of -- either on behalf of a republican candidate who would defeat trump or on behalf of the democratic party. you could involve yourself in local politics. you can -- you know, you can stop treating democra

that's robert rayingen -- kagan, a former reagan official writing in "the washington post". >> there'swing agreement and acute concern i think across the political spectrum about the explicitly authoritarian the threat of a second trump term. >> it's a very special issue of the atlantic where they have the same people writing the same article they usually write about how terrible donald trump is and how much he's a real threat to be an authoritarian this time around. howard: i think journalists say, well, he is a dictator, authoritarian and fascist, so they have no choice. but ultimately, this is about the credibility of our business and why half the country no longer trusts the press. i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ howard: ahead, how the media are handling devastating new tax evasion charges against hunter biden. at an iowa town hall, sean hannity gave donald trump two opportunities to respond to the mounting media criticism about his second term. >> do you in any way have any plans whatsoever, if reelected president, to abuse power, to break the law, to use the governmen

this is what will happen in 24, god forbid he comes, there are neoconservatives there, some, like robert kagan mean cheney, daughter, the daughter of a famous neoconservative, and even the vice president of the united states, they are already practically saying that it is necessary to remove him, that is, they can physically remove him, because if he comes, then the whole structure, in fact, that was built by the united states . it will collapse, i agree with generdi tiranovich that we need to talk with the united states, but unfortunately, with whom, no one, but at the moment this will not work, because we can come to an agreement with this administration, but there with trump, and in 4 years another administration will come, which means we are laying out the entire list of our agreements and we will say, you confirm, no, yes, we cross them out, we confirm, no, we cross them out, because this is exactly how it turns out, the current american establishment cannot... develop a stable line, this is the problem, this is the main problem, and the fact that trump is coming, i am very much for trump

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