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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“He continued: “We need an odious thug to shake up Washington, stir up all the ossified bureaucracies now destroying America, do all the things no one has had the balls to do.”
When I looked skeptical, he charged: “We need someone to take control!”
As soon as he uttered those last words, he and I both knew the conversation was over. He had spilled the beans. He was impatient with the messiness and slowness of democracy. He wanted a dictator.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/26/biden-trump-debate-robert-reich