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‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ Artificial Intelligence Takes Over
In the summer of 2023, at the Turning Point conference in Florida, Trump delivered one of the more strange, even bizarre, predictions from a candidate for president of the United States.
“Get out and vote just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years it will be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. You’ve got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed, so it’s good you’re not going to have to vote.” Trump
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu dismissed the quote as ‘classic Trumpism.’ The media moved onto the next spike of the campaign trail, and Trump went onto victory.
That victory was by an eyelash, a photo finish, but Dems folded and took a beach vacation. They left those of us who agreed with their message a Trump victory was the end of democracy feeling abandoned.
That moment with Trump in the summer wouldn’t leave my mind. Dismissing that as Trumpism seemed like a cop-out or denial. But I couldn’t figure it out. It seemed nonsensical.
Another thing occurred right after Trump’s statement: a new poker in the fire: Elon Musk. What would that mean? It felt important to me then, but more of an annoyance than a game-changer. How…