After Donald J. Trump suggested he had threatened to encourage Russia to attack “delinquent” NATO allies, the response among many Republican officials has struck three themes — expressions of support, gaze aversion or even cheerful indifference.
Republican Party elites have become so practiced at deflecting even Mr. Trump’s most outrageous statements that they quickly batted this one away. Mr. Trump, the party’s likely presidential nominee, had claimed at a Saturday rally in South Carolina that he once threatened a NATO government to meet its financial commitments — or else he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to that country.
I’d say the 78% of the population that didn’t vote for Trump deserves to keep living.
Yes, in 2020, only 22% of the population voted for Trump. And yes, that does include children and those ineligible to vote, but I think it’s worthwhile pointing out that the US is very much under minority rule. Because those same people voted for the Republicans in Congress.
As a sidenote, only 33 percent of Germans actually voted for Hitler. He still managed to destroy democracy.
A minority is absolutely dangerous as long as the majority stays silent.
Or put another way, “ Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." - John Stewart Mill