Like many Americans, Carolina Giuliani was paralyzed over the prospect that Donald Trump — the man she blames for ruining her father and damaging her family — could be close to returning to the White House.

“It’s a hard phenomenon to understand. It definitely is,” Carolina Giuliani said. “I view Trump as a disease, and I think it’s really important to remember that with every disease, prevention is a much more effective strategy than treatment. … I thought we had cured ourselves of it the first time, but it doesn’t seem like we have.

“And I think if he becomes the president again, we may have a terminal illness in our country. And that really, really scares me.”


🗳️ Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 month ago

    She’s close. Trump isn’t the disease, though, he’s a symptom. The disease is Christian nationalism, and it’s been festering far longer than Trump has been on the national scene.

    The disease lies in the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and a few other groups hell-bent on turning the US into a theocracy. They’ve been working on this for a very long time, and have been testing the fences for decades, like velociraptors, only making their move now they’ve found all the weaknesses they need to succeed.

    It worries me how focussed people are on the threat trump poses, because even if he dropped dead today, it would only be a temporary inconvenience to these dominionists who have infiltrated nearly every facet of the US government. They will not stop if trump disappears, or if Harris is elected.

    Please, watch The Family documentary. You’ll be amazed and likely sick at how deeply they’ve embedded themselves.

    • brianary@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      This is all true, but there’s not clear line of succession after Trump, so they’ll splinter. Redirecting the fervor to some new dear leader will take a long time. The Trump thralls are entirely invested in him alone.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        Yes, thank you! There are a few others, and these aren’t disparate groups. They all work together.

        e: The membership Venn diagram is often a circle.