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The Daily Blast: How Trump’s Ugliest Authoritarian Threats May Soon Blow Up In His Face

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is now leveling his authoritarian threats right out in the open. He appears supremely confident that none of it will alienate swing voters. Now NBC News reports that the Biden campaign hopes to draw out this side of Trump at their upcoming debate—but if Trump doesn’t see these things as liabilities, he may advertise them all over again when voters are paying attention. We talked to Slate legal writer Dahlia Lithwick, author of an excellent new piece outlining how Trump is running on an overt promise of authoritarianism, about whether voters will awaken to the threat he poses—and how this could cause his confidence to blow up in his face.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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One thing has become clear in recent days,

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Donald Trump is extremely confident that he is going to win the presidential election.

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He's openly railing about his criminal conviction and making a range of authoritarian threats

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right out in the open, blithely unconcerned about whether any of it will

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alienate swing voters.

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In one sense, this very well might backfire on him.

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NBC News reports that the Biden campaign hopes to draw out this side of Trump at their

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upcoming debate this month.

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But if Trump doesn't think these things are liabilities, he may advertise them all over again when voters are paying

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