Lucid, August 20, 2026
During the Cold War, America played a double game, fostering democratic ideals and culture in Europe while backing coups to install right-wing dictators in other parts of the world. That game is over. Now, President Donald Trump and his fellow saboteurs are taking down the world’s most important democracy so that right-wing and selected Communist tyrants can prosper.
Autocrats often tell us what they intend to do, and Trump was no exception. He ran for president on a platform of helping some of the world’s most murderous leaders. During his campaign, he repeatedly “joked” about becoming a dictator himself, and declared at a June 2024 rally that a “smart president” would not consider North Korea, China, and Russia as enemies, and would “make them do great.”
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