Wake up! A new Trump derangement story just dropped!
TIME Magazine's featured cover story on Trump is written by Eric Cortellessa, who is absolutely terrified of, but obsessed with, Donald Trump.
Oh, I'm sorry, you thought I was joking? The guy is literally paid to fear-monger to the TDS types.
For some reason, Trump agreed to an interview so Cortellessa could remind everyone how scary Trump is. It's a doozy, so unless you dream about reading 5,000-word essays about how Trump is Orange Hitler, you might want to let me summarize it for you.
Let's dive in.
To supporters, the prospect of Trump 2.0, unconstrained and backed by a disciplined movement of true believers, offers revolutionary promise. To much of the rest of the nation and the world, it represents an alarming risk. A second Trump term could bring "the end of our democracy," says presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, "and the birth of a new kind of authoritarian presidential order."
It's either Biden or THE END OF DEMOCRACY!
The rest of the article is just as dramatic as this caricature.
The interviewer starts with January 6th, of course, and is shocked that Trump says he would consider pardoning those who have been hounded by Biden's Justice Department ever since Trump left office.
But it's even worse. Trump may actually try to use the power of the presidency to achieve conservative goals!
Check out [trigger warning] Trump's desire to shut down the border:
Trump's radical designs for presidential power would be felt throughout the country. A main focus is the southern border. Trump says he plans to sign orders to reinstall many of the same policies from his first term, such as the Remain in Mexico program, which requires that non-Mexican asylum seekers be sent south of the border until their court dates, and Title 42, which allows border officials to expel migrants without letting them apply for asylum.
Oh no! He's going to abuse his power by ... doing the same thing he did in the first term that worked?
Of course, it's worse for the Left than this. Trump also has mass deportation of new Democrat voters - sorry, I mean "undocumented migrants" - from the country.
The author has amazing objections to Trump's idea of using the National Guard to deport illegal aliens!
When I ask if that means he would override the Posse Comitatus Act — an 1878 law that prohibits the use of military force on civilians — Trump seems unmoved by the weight of the statute. "Well, these aren't civilians," he says. "These are people that aren't legally in our country."
HAHAHA!
The TIME writer never considered that a law meant to protect citizens might not apply to non-citizens! And he thinks this makes Trump look unserious???
Trump also talks abortion, sort of. He basically wants to leave everything to the states, since that's what overturning Roe v Wade accomplished. That would include allowing states to be as strict as they wanted.
He also plans to reimplement his economic agenda from his first administration to get the economy back on track. Cortellessa opposes this and thinks the economy under Biden is fine.
Trump thinks he can accomplish more in a second term, however, because he has more support in Congress for the MAGA agenda than he had in 2016.
Representative Jim Banks of Indiana, a former RSC chairman and the GOP nominee for the state's open Senate seat, recalls an August 2022 RSC planning meeting with Trump at his residence in Bedminster, N.J. As the group arrived, Banks recalls, news broke that Mar-a-Lago had been raided by the FBI. Banks was sure the meeting would be canceled. Moments later, Trump walked through the doors, defiant and pledging to run again. "I need allies there when I'm elected," Banks recalls Trump saying. The difference in a second Trump term, Banks says now, "is he's going to have the backup in Congress that he didn't have before."
We can only hope!
The next section of the hit piece is all about foreign policy. Trump will likely reduce aid to Ukraine and encourage an end to the conflict in Israel in a desire to "get it over with."
Trump is leaning into isolationism and doesn't want to use US treasure in foreign conflicts - especially in Ukraine, where the US is funding the war at a higher level than Europe.
"I wouldn't give unless Europe starts equalizing," Trump hedges in our interview. "If Europe is not going to pay, why should we pay? They're much more greatly affected. We have an ocean in between us. They don't." (E.U. nations have given more than $100 billion in aid to Ukraine as well.)
(The US has given close to $200 billion, btw, Eric. Do the math)
Speaking of alternative facts, here's some more editorializing by TIME where they try to convince you that crime isn't a problem.
On the campaign trail, Trump uses crime as a cudgel, painting urban America as a savage hell-scape even though violent crime has declined in recent years, with homicides sinking 6% in 2022 and 13% in 2023, according to the FBI. When I point this out, Trump tells me he thinks the data, which is collected by state and local police departments, is rigged. "It's a lie," he says.
Maybe when the Left starts supporting putting criminals in jail then they can lecture us about crime. Until then, all they're doing is encouraging more crime.
(By the way, even if violent crimes are down, which is doubtful, that doesn't mean US cities are safe.)
This leads to what might be the best part of the story:
In polls, large numbers of his supporters have expressed the view that antiwhite racism now represents a greater problem in the U.S. than the systemic racism that has long afflicted Black Americans. When I ask if he agrees, Trump does not dispute this position. "There is a definite antiwhite feeling in the country," he tells TIME, "and that can't be allowed either." In a second term, advisers say, a Trump Administration would rescind Biden's Executive Orders designed to boost diversity and racial equity.
I want to vote for Trump twice now.
This is awesome! I love Trump spitting truth like this.
Again, TIME points out that Trump has a better plan to implement his agenda this time around.
Policy groups are creating a government-in-waiting full of true believers. The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 has drawn up plans for legislation and Executive Orders as it trains prospective personnel for a second Trump term. The Center for Renewing America, led by Russell Vought, Trump's former director of the Office of Management and Budget, is dedicated to disempowering the so-called administrative state, the collection of bureaucrats with the power to control everything from drug-safety determinations to the contents of school lunches. The America First Policy Institute is a research haven of pro-Trump right-wing populists. America First Legal, led by Trump's immigration adviser Stephen Miller, is mounting court battles against the Biden Administration.
No more RINOs running the show. Just American patriots who want to see the president make America great again.
This is supposed to make us afraid of voting for the guy??
The story goes into even more detail on the administrative plans being crafted to battle the deep state in DC. Including withholding funding, and firing non-political officials who don't abide by the agenda.
The author also asks Trump about his "dictator for just a day" comment, where he said he would close the border and "drill, drill, drill" on day one. He's very concerned™ that Trump will end Democracy™ and become Caesar.
Trump says that the remark "was said in fun, in jest, sarcastically" ...
Whether or not he was kidding about bringing a tyrannical end to our 248-year experiment in democracy, I ask him, Don't you see why many Americans see such talk of dictatorship as contrary to our most cherished principles? Trump says no. Quite the opposite, he insists. "I think a lot of people like it."
Alright, you don't have to convince me TIME. I was already going to vote for him.
I said that I read this so you don't have to, but there are so many nuggets in this story that I couldn't fit in.
But here's the main takeaway:
It's clear why the Left is terrified.
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