I don't think the Trump folks are wrong to say that, for example, seizing control of the Fed is small-d democratic (as @adamtooze.bsky.social argues in that piece I linked) which is why I answered that way. No?

To put it charitably: your willful blindness will not age well

I mean, in the stupidest way if you knew nothing about the power structure or history or Trump, sure

….what?

*Someone* seizing control of the fed could *theoretically* be small-d democratic, but Trump seizing the Fed clearly, obviously, will not be any kind of Democratic. We do not need to do a thought experiment here, Trump and his gang of corrupt authoritarians are the ones seizing the Fed right now.

“What if I accepted the Trump rationalization at face value? Why, I suppose it would be justified!”