Trump spoke to his cultists in the Talibangelical movement and said the following: You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again.
Now, there is a perfectly plausible explanation for this: Trump is a fucking moron who can't articulate a coherent thought properly. He meant that he would "fix everything" and America would be so great that Talibangelicals could go back to not voting, the way many of them didn't vote prior to 2016.
However...
Donald Trump has never conceded publicly that he lost the 2020 election. He conspired to overthrow the results of that election. He incited a mob to stop the counting of the Electoral College votes that made Joe Biden the president. He has not said that he will abide by the results of the 2024 election.
So anyone trying to scrub Trump's comments and give them the most sanitary spin can pound sand. Unless Trump comes forward and says that he lost in 2020 and will abide by the result in 2024, unless Trump comes forward and disowns his "I will be a dictator in day one" comment, you do not get to give him the benefit of the doubt.
He's an authoritarian goon. He's a tycoon, because he inherited a bunch of money and managed not to lose it all. That has made him indifferent to other people and democratic processes. He's never had a Board of Directors to answer to and he denies the ability of others to check his power.
He does not and should not get any benefit of the doubt.
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