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The American people voted for this man in a free and fair election. No subjugation or subversion needed.

This man did not say he was going to bomb anything until after he was voted in, so the American people were - once again - completely duped by their own hubris.

> This man did not say he was going to bomb anything until after he was voted in

Except Mexico (https://www.vox.com/policy/363146/trump-policy-war-mexico-tr...) and Iran (https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4898919-trump-iran-smi...).

A third of the American people voted for him, based on a campaign which promised a completely different economy than he has delivered (remember when people were pretending Biden had an egg-price level in the Oval Office?) and no foreign wars. It is unreasonable to look at that election and say a plurality voted for this.

> American people voted for this man in a free and fair election

Americans voted for a man who promised no foreign wars and, in his first term, was relatively peaceful [1].

[1][ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_first_Tr...

And the american people can get their shit together and hang him for his crimes.

Now this I would like to see, but I have serious doubts it will ever happen. I don’t think the American people have the courage to do something about their heinous, out of control government, personally. Happy to be proven wrong, because it would be a legitimate step to world peace on behalf of the American people, but I seriously doubt they are, as a population, capable of it.

I largely agree with you. Democratic leadership responded to an attempted coup by slow rolling prosecution with the hope that Trump would simply recede from public life and they'd never have to do the hard thing of trying and convicting a former president.

The Democrats have just as much blood on their hands as their Republican counterparts, and that is the problem - the only force capable of dealing with this conundrum is the American people, and they are too busy playing sides to actually confront the reality of their nations heinous war crimes record.

The entire media apparatus is owned by oligarchs: from Fox News to Twitter to Meta, now CNN... All are relaying non-stop right-wing propaganda. There can be no real democracy while information is this captive.

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