'Essence of authoritarianism': Expert warns 'Project 2025' would create a Trump 'autocracy'

[Toddsterpatriot]

Suppressing the shit out of illegal alien voters.

 

[excalibur]

The Heritage Foundation — a well-funded, influential far-right group in Washington, DC — has been quietly vetting tens of thousands of arch-conservative acolytes to staff up the federal government under the next Republican administration as part of its "Project 2025" presidential transition plan. One scholar of authoritarian movements around the globe is sounding the alarm over what that would mean should former President Donald Trump win a second term in the White House.

During a Saturday segment on MSNBC, New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat told host Ali Velshi that Project 2025 would effectively transform American government from a meritocratic democracy to a regime resembling Vladimir Putin's Russia. She pointed to Heritage's calls to eliminate numerous government agencies that serve as checks on the executive branch as merely one example.

"The essence of authoritarianism is removing restraints on the leader and making him immune from prosecution by domesticating government," Ben-Ghiat said. "And so some of what Project 2025 proposes, like abolishing the DOJ and the FBI is designed for that end, to make it impossible to prosecute Trump and allow him to commit crimes with impunity."

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'Essence of authoritarianism': Expert warns 'Project 2025' would create a Trump 'autocracy'

The Heritage Foundation — a well-funded, influential far-right group in Washington, DC — has been quietly vetting tens of thousands of arch-conservative acolytes to staff up the federal government under the next Republican administration as part of its "Project 2025" presidential transition...

www.alternet.org

Sounds ominous to me! What do you think?

Far right. LOL​

 

[excalibur]

Commie boy Hakeem said what?

 

[conserveguy877]

So this "project 2025" paranoia President Trump has not clue about was fearmongered since February?? Wow! Let the gaslighting begin.

 

[scruffy]

Raskin will be the first one they jail!!!

Maybe the second or third.

 

[scruffy]

Only leftwing nutjobs are allowed to go overboard!!!

Overboard in an excellent place for leftards.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Would you prefer that government send a free Bible to every voter?

Why would the government do that?
People can get them anywhere.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

You think the left would do any different?

Yes.

That’s my point, it’s a game, it sucks, but it’s the game we have..where scotus judges are appointed based on their political leanings, not necessarily their fealty to the law.

Been that way for awhile now

Only since Trump and McTurtle...............

Naked Republican hypocrisy is destroying trust in Supreme ...​

USA Today
https://www.usatoday.com › story › opinion › 2020/10/12
Oct 12, 2020 — Naked Republican hypocrisy is destroying trust in Supreme Court: Reagan, Bush lawyers · Republicans are using a deeply unfair process to confirm ...

 

[martybegan]

One State. California. In 2035 not 2030

Does it include hybrids?

NY as well, and several others.

It's still laws in place, and no, hybrids aren't allowed. They want to go all EV.

Without the infrastructure even being close to support it, and that should be well underway now, and it's not.

 

[Mac-7]

Why would the government do that?
People can get them anywhere.

Including a company that supports trump

If there were only one book libs could burn it would be the Bible

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Yes.

Only since Trump and McTurtle...............

Naked Republican hypocrisy is destroying trust in Supreme ...​

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https://www.usatoday.com › story › opinion › 2020/10/12
Oct 12, 2020 — Naked Republican hypocrisy is destroying trust in Supreme Court: Reagan, Bush lawyers · Republicans are using a deeply unfair process to confirm ...

You understand that a Republican senate has no obligation to help a Democrat President
get his nominee onto the Supreme Court, right?

Whatever one thinks of McConnell’s action in 2016 to deny any consideration to President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland — and we think it was clearly wrong — an action now to proceed with a Republican nominee for a vacancy arising less than two months before the election would flatly violate the principle McConnell announced then to justify the action he took.

The principle was that the Republicans held the Senate. If the American people elected the corrupt old sot, that was their way of saying a Democrat should fill that vacancy. If the corrupt old sot lost, that was their way of saying a Republican should fill the vacancy.

With a Republican Senate and Republican President in 2020, the American people already had their say.

 

[Lesh]

NY as well, and several others.

It's still laws in place, and no, hybrids aren't allowed. They want to go all EV.

Without the infrastructure even being close to support it, and that should be well underway now, and it's not.

It does not include plug in hybrids

These states plan to phase out gas car sales

At least a dozen states have made moves to restrict the sale of vehicles driven purely by internal combustion engines, with nine working toward an all-out ban by 2035.

fox59.com

 

[martybegan]

It does not include plug in hybrids

These states plan to phase out gas car sales

At least a dozen states have made moves to restrict the sale of vehicles driven purely by internal combustion engines, with nine working toward an all-out ban by 2035.

fox59.com

It's still government interfering with the market and pushing an inferior product.

Without anything close to the infrastructure required to support it.

 

[Lesh]

You understand that a Republican senate has no obligation to help a Democrat President
get his nominee onto the Supreme Court, right?

Whatever one thinks of McConnell’s action in 2016 to deny any consideration to President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland — and we think it was clearly wrong — an action now to proceed with a Republican nominee for a vacancy arising less than two months before the election would flatly violate the principle McConnell announced then to justify the action he took.

The principle was that the Republicans held the Senate. If the American people elected the corrupt old sot, that was their way of saying a Democrat should fill that vacancy. If the corrupt old sot lost, that was their way of saying a Republican should fill the vacancy.

With a Republican Senate and Republican President in 2020, the American people already had their say.

So you successfully stacked the court to your satisfaction

Time for Dems to do the same

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

So you successfully stacked the court to your satisfaction

Time for Dems to do the same

Successfully followed the rules to get a nominee on the Court.

No stacking involved.

 

[Lesh]

Successfully followed the rules to get a nominee on the Court.

No stacking involved.

To get three nominees on the Court

Nothing in the rules precludes expanding the Court

 

[Nostra]

So, a bill requiring one to prove you are eligible to legally vote is a "voter suppression bill". Hakeem just said the he doesn't want illegal votes suppressed.

 

[Nostra]

So you successfully stacked the court to your satisfaction

Time for Dems to do the same

The number didn't increase under Trump, so there was no stacking, Moron.

Holy shit you are stupid. How many do you want Tater to add?

 

[Lesh]

The number didn't increase under Trump, so there was no stacking, Moron.

Holy shit you are stupid. How many do you want Tater to add?

They played fast and loose with the rules

Adding more Justices is within the rules

 

[Nostra]

They played fast and loose with the rules

Adding more Justices is within the rules

They were within the rules.

How many do you want Tater to add? Give us a number.