Senior Democrats in US cities are preparing to defend their communities in the event ofĀ Donald TrumpāsĀ return to the White House after the former president has repeated threats that he would use presidential powers to seize control of major urban centers.
Trump has proposed deploying the military inside major cities largely run byĀ DemocratsĀ to deal with protesters or to crush criminal gangs. He has threatened to dispatch large numbers of federal immigration agents to carry out mass deportations of undocumented people in so-called āsanctuaryā cities.
He also aims to obliterate the progressive criminal justice policies of left-leaning prosecutors.
āIn cities where there has been a complete breakdown of law and order ā¦ I will not hesitate to send in federal assets including the national guard until safety is restored,ā Trump says in the campaign platform for his bid to become the 47th US president,Ā Agenda47.
TrumpĀ provoked uproarĀ earlier this week when he called for US armed forces to be deployed against his political rivals ā āthe enemy withinā ā on election day next month. But his plans to use national guard troops and military personnel as a means to attack those he sees as his opponents go much wider than that, spanning entire cities with Democratic leadership.
Listen to meā¦ 39 Smaller than 61. Say it with me
39 is smaller than 61.
So letās get this straight, are you saying that the 39% are more substantial than the 61%?
My whole point is:
Democrats do not want to repeal the second amendment. Itās not part of the platform, itās never been part of the platform in my entire life.
No, you canāt just cherry pick a few opinion pieces and Amazon links as supporting āevidenceā for your claim that Democrats want to repeal the 2nd amendment. A group of people is not a hive mind, itās a collection of individuals who have their own stances on every single issue presented. In the poll you posted, 8% of gun-loving Republicans wanted to repeal the 2nd amendmentā¦ Are they not Republicans because they disagree with the part on that issue? Do they matter? Of course they do, and it would be silly to deny it, but that minority does not determine policy positions for the party.
Democrats do not want to repeal the 2nd amendment, full stop.
If you said, āmost of the people who want to repeal the second amendment are Democratsā Iād agree with you. If you said āmore Democrats than Republicans want to repeal the second amendmentā Iād agree with you, but saying that āThe Democrats are hiding their desire to repeal the second amendmentā is plainly false. Itās not supported by the statistics, itās not supported by history. The only thing that supports it is a handful of opinion pieces and a few Amazon links.
Honestly, if you still canāt understand this now, then you are either not representing yourself in good faith, or you are too far down the rabbit-hole to recognize logic or irony anymore. Either way, we should be done here. Unless you can come back with something substantial, like a recent (letās say, post 9-11) bill brought to the floor by a majority of Democrats in Congress, or a platform statement by Democrats setting a goal to repeal the 2nd amendment, or a poll showing more than 50% Democrat support for a 2A repeal, then your position, that Democrats want to repeal the second amendment, is not based in reality.