• Veraxus@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Not remotely. Both are very much right wing, but there is a wide and wild ocean between the two in terms of authoritarianism.

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          6 months ago

          https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-capital-punishment-brandon-bernard-lisa-montgomery-1234664126/

          His use of federal death penalties that he did a record number of at the end of his presidential term as an attempt to raise support for his re-election using illegally supplied drugs that can’t be used for that anymore.

          To the point that part of his re-election campaign is still in death penalty but using firing squads or hanging as his alternative to lethal injection since they could be made public to scare citizens against acting out and again he accidentally helped make illegal the drugs he used in federal executions.

          • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            Trump is chasing populism, but the Biden team is not exactly proactively against capital punishment.

            Biden could tell the Justice Department not to pursue the death penalty, but he hasn’t.

            Harris kept the death penalty available when she was California attorney general.

            Through inaction, the Democrats are being equally authoritarian.

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              6 months ago

              Sure but there is currently 0 federal death penalties and he has stated there will be no more while president and kept the illegality of the drugs for lethal injection keeping it hard for states to perform and isn’t buying more.

              He may support the idea of it but isn’t supporting the action of it.

              Making him less authoritarian for sure.
              Not equal. That’s your own bias wanting an outcome. Sorry but no I’m gonna be factual in the ways I think they are problematic not reactionary.