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President Donald Trump is trying to become an American Caesar, argued one of President George W. Bush\u2019s advisers in a recent Substack post \u2014 but returning to America\u2019s core ideals can stop him.<\/p>\n

Read more A tangled maze of ties uncovers Trump\u2019s true masters \u2014 and his treachery<\/a><\/p>\n

In his Sunday argument, Steve Schmidt ventured back 90 years to 1936, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was running for his second term and the Nazis under Adolf Hitler were ascendant in the burgeoning German empire. After describing how the Nazis\u2019 persecution of Jews in Europe was matched by America\u2019s persecution of African Americans across the Atlantic, Schmidt quoted a Roosevelt speech that summed up the fundamentally American qualities that he believes can ultimately take down Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cFaith \u2014 in the soundness of democracy in the midst of dictatorships,\u201d Schmidt quoted Roosevelt. \u201cHope \u2014 renewed because we know so well the progress we have made. Charity \u2014 in the true spirit of that grand old word. For charity literally translated from the original means love, the love that understands, that does not merely share the wealth of the giver, but in true sympathy and wisdom helps men to help themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schmidt then connected Roosevelt\u2019s rhetoric to modern American politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Franklin Roosevelt laid out is an indictment of our age of selfishness in which an accumulation of factors has arisen in perfect symmetry with the most dangerous man in American history,\u201d Schmidt argued. \u201cDonald Trump is a liar, a cheat, a narcissistic sociopath, a convicted sex abuser and conman.\u201d<\/p>\n

He concluded, \u201cHe is well on his way to becoming an American Caesar, unequal in stature, above the law and in absolute control over vast institutions that can yield power through control. The American citizen is becoming a leashed dog tethered to the state, which grants favors to some, and punishment to others. This must be opposed. It must be defeated \u2014 or we will lose America, and there is nowhere left to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more DC insider: Trump\u2019s ongoing corruption scandal reveals America\u2019s \u2018dirty secret\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week Schmidt explicitly connected his ongoing argument that Trump is becoming a dictator with the president\u2019s $1.776 billion slush fund to Jan. 6ers and other political supporters (as well as possibly institutions directly connected with himself).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is remarkable,\u201d Schmidt argued. \u201cDonald Trump has just been given more than $1.8 billion by his lawyer’s signature, who is now the Attorney General, creating a slush fund for extremists that Donald Trump can reward them, give them recompense, give them reparations. Donald Trump didn’t invent corruption, but he has perfected it. He has created a vicious cult of personality.\u201d<\/p>\n

After pointing out that in 2020 there was a massive breach of IRS data that impacted more than 400,000 people, none of whom has received a settlement, Schmidt concluded that \u201cmillions of Americans work hard and they pay half of what they make to the IRS \u2014 to taxes \u2014 to fund the schools, the roads, the military. What’s happening with Trump isn’t just not right. It is an insult, a mockery of every hardworking person who plays by the rules. Donald Trump is laughing at us.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cAnd so is his family. They are the greatest collection of takers in all of whole history of the United States. There are no examples of corruption that are even in the same galaxy as this. It is truly, truly incredible. Mind-boggling. And yet it rolls on, and it will continue to do so until there’s a Democratic Congress that makes it stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Trump supporters are ignoring the math \u2014 and the consequences: analysis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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