Reporters and analysts of all political perspectives have tried to figure out Donald Trump since he entered politics and, improbably, became President of the United States.
Two main competing theories have emerged from the noise: 1. Trump is a reckless, shoot-from-the-hip guy who just spews nonsense without giving it a second thought; and 2. His chaos is strategic, meant to seize control of the news cycle at any moment.
On Saturday, counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance cut past that noise, saying the president’s behavior and rhetoric is rooted in the fact that Trump “does not believe” in America’s form of democracy.
Instead, Nance said that Trump believes democracy is his “biggest obstacle.”
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Nance said:
Donald Trump believes in autocracies he does not believe in Republican democracy as it is represented or parliamentary democracy throughout Europe and the United States over its entire history. He believes, and his biggest obstacle is democracy. That’s why he doesn’t like the investigations. That’s why he doesn’t like the way of governance in America. And he feels comfortable with dictators and autocrats. I just finished a new book on this, plot to destroy democracy which shows that he is in complete alignment with Vladimir Putin because Putin has worked very hard over the last 20 years to create an axis of autocracies and Donald Trump was one of those people that they saw as very favorable to this global oligarchy running democratic nations and destroying the Atlantic alliance, the globalist world and democracy as it’s been spread since the end of World War II.
Trump is trying to build an autocracy
Trump makes it obvious how little he respects American institutions and the rule of law each time he trashes the ongoing investigations and tries to undermine the intelligence community, as he did on Saturday.
As Nance said, Trump’s hatred of the ongoing Russia/obstruction probe shows that “he doesn’t like the way of governance in America” and is so comfortable with autocrats.
At the end of the day, Trump respects Vladimir Putin and other foreign dictators because that’s what he wants to be – the leader of a government that has no accountability and enriches only those running it.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
