Donald Trump’s “only I can fix it” rhetoric is giving off authoritarian vibes, some conservatives are admitting, including John Yoo, the George W. Bush administration lawyer who authored the so-called “torture memos.”
Yoo told the Washington Post that Trump “reminds me a lot of early Mussolini,” calling the comparison “very disturbingly similar.”
His comment comes as even Trump’s supporters have explicitly equated him to authoritarianism.
“We need a Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power in our country and bring back the rule of law,” Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) told a local radio show this week.
Yoo went on, in the Washington Post story, to criticize Trump’s vow to use a special prosecutor to re-open the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email as “a compounded stupidity.”
“If you are a Republican or a conservative, you think that special prosecutors are unconstitutional,” Yoo said, adding that the idea would have the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia “rolling in his grave.”
Good point – Yoo isn’t necessarily saying that being Benito is such a bad thing. Given his track record, the rich, full-bodied taste of Mussolini is the perfect way for Yoo to start a new day in America.
Holy fuck. When Trump is too authoritarian for John Yoo irony is dead.
I wonder what gave him the impression Trump was like Mussolini?
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Edit to add:
Yoo told the Washington Post that Trump “reminds me a lot of early Mussolini,” calling the comparison "very disturbingly similar.”
I guess you can’t bullshit a bullshitter, except …
Well, it seems like Trump’s entire voting base is composed of bullshitters.
When President Trump wants to round up and deport 11 million people, extort Mexico into building his wall and institute a 35 percent tariff to target and punish individual corporations it’s the John Yoo’s of the world who will write the legal briefs to allow him to do it.