“This attitude that our Bible and our interpretation of the Bible is the truth, it is the correct one, it is the only one we should be listening to, and our laws should be drawn from that, and we're going to force you, whatever you believe, to live by those laws is the very essence of fascism.”
The fascists believed that you have to destroy to create,
and this is what a second Trump administration would do.
Project 2025 is a plan for an authoritarian takeover of the United States that goes by a deceptively neutral name.
It preserves Trumpism’s original radical intent in its goals to “[d]ismantle the administrative state” and “decentralize and privatize as much as possible,” allowing the American people to “live freely.”
“[T]he Trump administration, with the best of intentions, simply got a slow start,” Heritage Foundation head #Kevin#Roberts told The New York Times in January. “And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.”
The solution to this “slow start”
—code for the restraints imposed by operating in a democracy
—is counterrevolution.
The plan promises the abolition of the Department of Education and other federal agencies.
The intent here is to destroy the legal and governance cultures of liberal democracy and create new bureaucratic structures,
staffed by new politically vetted cadres,
to support autocratic rule.
So new agencies could appear to manage parents’ and family rights, Christian affairs, and other pillars of the new order.
🔥The Department of Health and Human Services is poised to have a central role in governance, 👉😱given the priorities Trumpism places on policing sexuality, weaponizing motherhood, persecuting transgender people and LGBTQ communities, and criminalizing abortion.
Rachel #Maddow on Bradley W. Hart's superb "Star-Spangled Fascism" podcast:
"The harder thing for us to sort of sit with, as Americans, is that there have been fascistic tendencies, fascistic movements in America ... for longer than we like to admit."
Rep Jasmine Crockett -- who is amazing -- takes down an Rep witness in a House hearing who had a hand in writing the Heritage Foundation's #Project2025.
(Video via Aaron Rupar & downloaded with an app so y'all don't have to go to the Bad Place.)
Too many people have no idea what's in store if #Biden doesn't win. Share with your friends, family, and other networks about Project 2025, using this handy-dandy guide from Media Matters:
@tdwllms1@old_hippie Project 2025 isn't dependent upon Trump -- any "conservative" President would fit this scheme. And 2025 isn't the only year they can accomplish it, just the earliest. Stay vigilant, always.
The Federal Election Commission must investigate whether Donald Trump’s campaign illegally attempted to hide settlement payments by routing the payments through third parties, according to a complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The allegations of wrongdoing stem from former Trump campaign employee AJ Delgado’s sworn declaration in her pending lawsuit against Trump and his campaign over her claims of pregnancy discrimination...
NO PORN FOR OLD MEN. Hidden in plain sight on page 5 of the #Project2025 plan is a thinly veiled reference to banning porn and imprisoning those who create and/or distribute it — if #Trump is elected. Considering porn consumption crosses partisan lines with both sides indulging, it's a curious concession to the worst offenders of all — #evangelicals. And so-called #Libertarians? This should be a non-starter for a Trump vote.
"Here is a difficult truth: A part of the American political spectrum is not merely a passive recipient of the combined authoritarian narratives that come from Russia, China, and their ilk, but an active participant in creating and spreading them."
@wdlindsy I'm listening to this audiobook on youtube: a breakdown of Nazi Germany's 1920, 25 Point Program that became the mandate of the Third Reich.
It was a mixture of #fascism, #antiSemitism, and the "German Workers' Party" #socialism. The combination, with the fatal authoritarian doctrine, gave #Hitler unchecked power.
It parallels the GOP-2.0 under Trump following Hitler's playbook. See #Project2025: #Trump with those powers. #MAGA
From the Republican perspective, this election is not actually about policy or governance. It's about the GOP's project to change the American form of government from democracy to autocracy.