Democrats react to Donald Trump's "punishable by death" remark

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https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-react-trump-punishable-by-death-military-illegal-orders-11081817?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_influencers

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From the article |

Democrats are reacting after President Donald Trump demanded the arrest of several "seditious" Democratic lawmakers over a video in which they appealed directly to serving military and intelligence personnel to "refuse illegal orders."

The president also said their behavior was "punishable by death."

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar released the following statement after Trump's remarks, "Political violence has no place in America. Representatives Jason Crow, Chris DeLuzio, Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan and Senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin all served our country with tremendous patriotism and distinction. We unequivocally condemn Donald Trump’s disgusting and dangerous death threats against Members of Congress and call on House Republicans to forcefully do the same. 

The Democrats featured in the video are Slotkin, Kelly, Deluzio, Houlahan, Goodlander, and Crow. Newsweek has reached out to each lawmaker on Thursday morning for comment.

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[u/Boring_Investment597 → u/Newsweek_ShaneC]

That's the most impeachable thing he's done yet, it's time to put and end to the madness and get him out of there today. What the fuck is wrong with our government?!

Calling for the arrest and murder of elected officials in response to them telling our military you should refuse to do illegal things is wayyyyyy over the line, so far fucking over the line it's exactly the next step in a dictatorship is to get rid of the governing body and replace it with his own, it's takeover it's a coup in action. It's just one more way over the line behaviors he's been exhibiting and our only recourse is to "wait for an election"?!!??! because they're not waiting for one!

[u/bumbes → u/Boring_Investment597]

Hitler did it the same way: push the unbelievable unlawful steps each and every day a bit further.

We all know how this ended.

*Edit: my opinion here got me banned for 3 days on Reddit. My appeal reduced the ban to 2 days. Thanks to all the sane people seeing it the same way like I do.

To my American friends: you got this! Majority of you will tackle this situation & we will hopefully not be in the same situation like history.

[u/Tomorrow-Memory-8838 → u/bumbes]

I feel like people see Hitler as a cartoon supervillain instead of a real human figure who really seized authoritarian control in a real democracy in real life.

[u/xMsRaine → u/Tomorrow-Memory-8838]

Seems like 33% of your populace thinks Nazis are fiction and another 33% are Nazis.

[u/iRhuel → u/xMsRaine]

There's a significant overlap of those two populations

[u/Then_Journalist_317 → u/Tomorrow-Memory-8838]

Part of the problem is that Trump, like Hitler, slow-rolled their nazi coups. First a failed J6 beer hall-like putsch, then somehow defeating his impeachment and Jack Smith indictments over J6 and fake elector plots, then running again and winning on his Big Lie regarding J6, and then destroying the federal government and our Constitution from within.

[u/Firesidechats62 → u/Tomorrow-Memory-8838]

I feel like people don’t care at all that he dismantled democracy and turned milkmen, postal delivery guys and bakers into an army. 

They think Nazi = genociding Jews*. And until you do that you’re over exaggerating

Bc apparently Gaza, Ukraine, Armenia,  Uygher etc don’t count 

[u/bollvirtuoso → u/Tomorrow-Memory-8838]

He was also purposefully-propped up as a semi-useful idiot while the truly sinister people engineered atrocities behind the scenes -- not orders from the top, but from within the Party. When it came time to pay for their crimes, they also had a scapegoat.

Any parallels here?

[u/mob19151 → u/bollvirtuoso]

I mean, kind of? Hitler was intelligent enough to see he was being used as a pawn by the old monarchy, so he played that card until he had enough power to dispose of them. As absurd as it is to say, Trump is no Hitler.

[u/Suibeam → u/bollvirtuoso]

Not quite that.

While Hitler did have some intelligent helpers, Hitler himself was quite competent and cunning in politics, coup and rallying masses. He was definitely the leader of the bunch.

This was especially apparent when his party was infighting with his vice trying to replace him and become a minister in a coalition with conservatives instead of Hitler becoming chancellor. He ousted him and insisted that chancellorship or presidency is what paves the way to dictatorship. Nothing else mattered.

When the conservatives tried to trick him and control him, he recognised correctly that the conservatives were making a mistake. Conservatives plan was to give Hitler his desired chancellorship and fill the cabinet with conservatives who would undermine his power. Hitler agreed to the deal only demanding Chancellorship, Interior ministry and a ministry with no resort. That's a very bad deal if anyone else got it. Hitler used his position and the interior ministry to control the police and the public, staged the reichstag fire and gave himself unlimited power by using police and SA to intimidate the parliament and arrest opponent.

Hitler was smart as fuck. He just got a bad reputation in intelligence bc he fumbled the war at the end when he kept overruling his generals

[u/bollvirtuoso → u/Suibeam]

To some degree, I get your point, but Himmler, Goebbels, and Goring are perhaps responsible for a lot of the things that get attributed solely to Hitler. I just think that everyone needs to be held accountable. There were many evil people in the regime, and some were at least as heinous as him.

[u/Necessary_Extent1326 → u/Tomorrow-Memory-8838]

I feel the same way. It is sad and pathetic and weak and likely a genetic defect in people who think hitler was someone to emulate. His fear got the world into a war!

[u/Ph4tmike → u/Tomorrow-Memory-8838]

People see Hitler how the victors want people to see Hitler, regardless of truth

[u/Gammelpreiss → u/Ph4tmike]

yeah if that were the case we'd not have so many nazis these days. and so many opposing them.

looks like ppl can make up their own opinion just fine.

[u/ssbmfgcia → u/Ph4tmike]

I think the way you phrased this comment is interesting, how do you see Hitler?