Comment by LitesoBrite on 02/12/2024 at 02:23 UTC

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View submission: What Trump Doesn’t Understand About the Military - Trump doesn’t seem to understand the arrangement that makes the U.S. both democratic and powerful.

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I disagree. He understands perfectly and arguments like OP undermine his criminal intent to overturn those norms PRECISELY because of how they limit the power of a president and prevent a dictatorship.

TLDR: he understands. He intends to break those norms and be a tyrant

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Comment by tempest_87 at 02/12/2024 at 04:05 UTC

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The two are not mutually exclusive.

One doesn't need to fully understand something to ignore it and work to undo it. Someone doesn't need to understand how a house was built in order to drive a bulldozer through it.