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Maybe You Should’ve Listened to Our Warnings About Trump
Experts, writers sounded alarm about wannabe dictator for years
So, it finally happened. The president of the United States launched a terrorist attack against his own country. And the U.S. confirmed it’s status as a third world country to the entire world. Of course, many experts and writers have warned of this for years. I knew Trump was a Russian agent five years ago and that’s why I was devastated when he won the presidency.
I also saw the signs of Trump's dictatorial tendencies. I called him a wannabe dictator and said he reminded me of African despots in a 2018 column. I’ve interviewed experts, such as Yale psychiatrist Dr. Brandy Lee, who said Trump was similar to criminal patients she’d worked with. She compared him to a mentally-ill person with a cache of weapons. I interviewed Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert in fascism who predicted Trump wouldn’t leave willingly. And I also talked to Steve Hassan, a cult deprogrammer, who said Trump had brainwashed the MAGA cult. Wednesday was the end product of five years of willful ignorance and enabling. We witnessed a mob of deranged cultists, conspiracy theorists and white supremacists invade the Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government. That’s the textbook definition of a coup.
