6 reasons why Donald Trump is considered 'dangerous'
Donald Trump's point of view is summed up with one sentence: The world is a fierce place, and must be responded to with a ferocious response. This is reinforced by his personality, which recently revealed that Trump likes violence.
"I was very rebellious," Trump said when asked by writer D'Antonio about his childhood in Queens, New York. This fact was revealed when Michael D'Antonio consciously leaked the recording of his interview with the eccentric billionaire in 2015.
The intimate conversation that lasted for 5 hours revealed Trump's true identity. Initially, there was no intention of D'Antonio to leak private recordings.
However, something changed. A year later, Trump decided to become president of the US. D'Antonio was suddenly worried when the eccentric billionaire campaign was full of curses and violence.
With full awareness, D'Antonio gave the tape to a New York Times reporter. The footage captures a side of Trump's emotions that has not been revealed in the media so far.
Trump's campaign is getting more and more disorganized, but nevertheless there are persistent patterns of Trump's words and deeds.
In the final days of the campaign, Trump has repeatedly said this election is fraudulent. Harsh words often come from the mouths of property entrepreneurs from New York. He called Hillary Clinton, 'Crooked Hillary' and 'Nasty Woman'.
His process made his followers 'sedated'. Recently New York Times journalists followed the campaign organized by Trump. The media crew of one of the oldest magazines in the US were taken aback when they heard the confession of Trump's supporters.
Supporters say they believe Trump was rigged and would make a revolution, dragging Hillary out of the White House.
Regarding this situation, it can be said that Trump is the most dangerous presidential candidate in history. This has also been expressed by Hillary Clinton some time ago.
Why is there such an assumption? Here are 6 reasons that Trump is dangerous. Liputan6.com quoted from NBCNews and various sources on Tuesday (1/11/2016).
1. Trump rhetoric
According to Trump, the world is a cruel place, where cities are "war zones," and "rapists" flock across borders, and jealous rivals plot to humiliate America and Trump personally.
In order to survive in such an environment, he argued, every attack had to be responded to as quickly and harshly as possible.
Legal or traditional boundaries, are a matter of late.
This rationale is also evident in Trump's proposed policies, such as committing torture, threatening retaliation against terrorist families, and promising to imprison Hillary.
Trump's thinking is reflected rhetorically in his vicious insults at his critics and his support for the violence perpetrated by his supporters.
"He's evil, but I could be even more evil than him," Trump told The New York Times after Clinton criticized his comments on the appearance of women in the first debate.
The next day, while campaigning, he indicated that Hillary had cheated on him, without providing any proof of the claim.
This rationale is also reflected in the video leaked when Trump speaks vulgarly. Then he also insulted appearances and threatened women who had publicly accused Trump of having unwanted sexual contact.
The same thinking is evident in Trump's campaigns, and his supporters reflect the same tone as their top candidate.
"We are all supporters of the Second Amendment, we want to restore the sovereignty of our country, as Trump said, and Hillary will not give it to us," Tammy Wilson, a Trump supporter, insisted at a campaign in Florida this month, and predicted that society would "revolt" if Trump loses.
"We are worried about possible violence on Election Day and beyond," Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center told NBC News.
2. The Principle of Revenge
The principle of revenge seems to be a matter of pride for Trump, who has often sold off his philosophy on several occasions.
"If people attack me, I will attack them more badly, and usually they attack first," Trump told Fox News in April. "That's how we want to lead this country." That same month, Trump revealed to a radio broadcaster that the Bible verse that most influenced him was "life for life."
He described his support for torture and war crimes by the phrase "returning fire with fire." When criticized for taunting the war hero family (Gold Star family) who criticized his proposal to ban the entry of Muslims to the US, Trump asked, "Am I not allowed to retaliate?"
"No presidential or presidential candidate has used such images repeatedly throughout his campaign," said the analysis of Martin Medhurst, a Baylor University professor who specializes in political rhetoric. "There's never been anything like it."
3. Violent Hobbies
In the second presidential debate in St. Petersburg Louis. Millions of viewers await Trump's reaction to the 2005 Access Hollywood video boasting about forcibly fingering women's genitals.
When asked for comment by the debate guide, Trump apologized briefly and reduced his remarks to "typical male chatter in the locker room."
But then the answer turned bloody by describing the heinous acts of ISIS. This is a Trump habit he has done many times before. And in Trump's view of a confrontational world, this makes sense: as long as the enemy out there is still doing bad things, there's no point in talking about Trump's "little mistakes."
Accentuating the cruelty of the enemy, in this case ISIS, Trump has often carried out in interviews with the media and his campaigns to justify his proposal to torture terrorism suspects.
"Our enemies beheaded Christians and drowned them in confinement, but we are too polite to respond," he wrote in a letter to USA Today in February 2016.
"We have to fight viciously and viciously because we are dealing with cruel people," he said in June supporting waterboarding (a method of torture by pouring water on suspects' faces until they run out of breath) and executing terrorists.
Trump has placed his willingness to be more brutal than his opponent at the heart of his political messages. Evidently, this was an effective strategy in campaigning during Republican presidential elections, when opponents were largely uncomfortable with straying from constitutional constraints or traditional assumptions about humanity.
4. Be forthright
For Trump's supporters, one of Trump's appeals is his habit of "saying it as it is."
For Ben Johnson, a retired firefighter, the problem is not with Trump, but with someone else. Other politicians, according to Ben, offer a "flowery picture" of the world, whereas Trump is a realist, especially on issues like terrorism.
As Trump speaks during his campaign, he pauses to let his supporters scream at the reporters who are covering. The call for "Hillary's imprisonment" was once uttered in the second debate.
Four days later, in Greensboro North Carolina, campaigners chanted "put her in prison" in reference to one of the women who accused Trump of sexual harassment.
Trump addresses these women as the main topic in his speech this time. Trump, who is notorious for attacking his enemies via social media, also encouraged his supporters to "check" one of his accusers' Facebook pages.
5. Violent Campaign
While other presidential candidates have always tried to keep their distance from violent or threatening supporters, Trump has implied or even blatantly stated that it is not wrong to go to extremes to defend Trump.
The message culminates in the presidential election, when Trump, who promotes a "law and order" platform, routinely defends supporters who physically attack protesters.
During an election in Iowa in February, Trump told supporters he would pay lawyers if they "knocked out" protesters who he claimed were going to throw tomatoes. That same month, Trump said he "wanted to punch a protester in the face" who was being dragged outside by security forces.
This kind of violence was a familiar ritual at Trump's campaign events, leading to clashes between protesters and supporters at a March event in Chicago.
His campaign is now accompanied by a tape request that the audience let security personnel handle any disturbances. But Trump continues to threaten Republican officials that there will be "riots" if they refuse to nominate him for president at the GOP convention.
"We see a lot of violence around Trump's appearance, which makes his supporters think: 'Wow, he allowed me to do that,' even without direct orders," said Kim Lane Scheppele, a Princeton lecturer and expert on authoritarian regimes. "This creates a permissive culture."
Trump twice made jokes that implied calls to kill Hillary. In August, he proposed that "Second Amendment supporters" could prevent Hillary from appointing a new Chief Justice. Broadly speaking, his remarks were seen as referring to acts of violence, although his campaign team denied this. In September, he said Clinton's bodyguards should let go of their weapons and "let's see what happens to him."
6. Contagious
In the final weeks of his campaign, Trump has portrayed himself as the victim of a global conspiracy that will prevent him from becoming president, blaming nearly everyone, including the media, election officials, banks, survey organizers, Democrats, Republicans and women who accuse him of sexual harassment. .
Contracting his top presidential candidate, one of Trump's supporters told the Boston Globe that he plans to make minority voters "feel a little wary" at the polling venue in response to Trump's calls for scrutiny at polling stations.
Other supporters sparked the possibility of post-election riots. The Trump campaign team responded to the article by stating that they "reject all forms of violence and will not allow it to be part of our campaign."
But the escalation of rhetoric, and Trump's reluctance to dismiss extreme supporters, has rights groups worried that conditions will become even more dangerous.
This fear is primarily because Trump has spread wide targets, often linked to a racial, ethnic or religious component. He regularly makes false claims about Muslim Americans celebrating terrorism or refusing to hand over terrorists, and warns that "other communities" (almost always cities with large minority populations) have stolen elections. Trump recently told Fox News that "illegal immigrants have voted across the country."
"What will happen on November 9 is still uncertain, but the trend of intolerance and violence that is becoming more and more widespread, and the hint of evil conspiracy is a cause for concern," said Jonathan Greenblat, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, in an interview.
