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MrPurple

(985 posts)
8. terror incidents after 1/20
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 06:12 PM
Dec 2016

When the next event like San Bernardino or Orlando happens, I think it's pretty much guaranteed that rather than calming the public and efficiently investigating like Obama did, Trump will seriously fan the flames. That's when I think his increased surveillance/detentions will likely start.

As troubled as I am by the right wing judicial appointments, gutting of the EPA, deficits that are so large after giant tax cuts that government programs and fiscal stimulus will be difficult in the future, my biggest fear is that Trump will corrupt the surveillance power of the state to use against his opponents, unconstitutionally enhance his power, and make the path he's taking us down hard to undo. If Putin used Russian intelligence to put Trump in power, why would that stop once he's in office.

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