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

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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...

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Sounds ominous to me! What do you think?

There it is again. "He didn't do it the first time, but he'll do it the second time, by gosh." And of course stupid people believe these leftwing talking points.

 

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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.

Oh look, it's Mr. Lakhota. I been kicking his teeth in long time now. No reason why that should stop.

Even if The Heritage Foundation is doing all that, and shame on them if they are but I doubt it, what the fu(k does that have to do with Trump? He doesn't answer to them.

 

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The disinformation queen has been busy disinforming everyone.

The stupid truly stops with her. Her trolling efforts haven't resulted in much but her repeating the disinformation over and over again. She can't post one link with Trump's name anywhere in the disinformation unless she inserts it manually at will.

 

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You're almost a week late in trying to convince people to not vote for Trump and the republicans. Trump already won the EC and the popular vote. If he was going to do it (and I very much doubt that he will), he has a clear mandate with the vote, the Senate going to the GOP, and the House likely staying with the GOP.

 

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Project 2025 remains irrelvant.

You can more rationally worry about Agenda 47. Personally, I’m ok with much of it. The thing that actually matters.

 

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Project 2025 remains irrelvant.

You can more rationally worry about Agenda 47. Personally, I’m ok with much of it. The thing that actually matters.

 

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^ false.

 

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^ false.

Brendan Carr, FCC chair
Carr authored the FCC chapter of Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership

Pete Hoekstra, U.S. ambassador to Canada
Hoekstra is listed as a contributor to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership.

Tom Homan, White House “border czar”
Homan is one of the many people listed as contributors to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership

Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary
In August, ProPublica and Documented reported on a series of previously unpublished videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, instructional clips intended to train potential future members of an incoming conservative administration. Leavitt appears in a 30-minute video entitled “The Art of Professionalism.”

Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff for policy
Miller founded and led the conservative nonprofit America First Legal, which both planned policy for a future Trump administration and filed numerous lawsuits in support of right-wing causes. AFL is one of the organizations that initially advised Project 2025, and Miller appeared in a video promoting Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy.

John Ratcliffe, CIA director
Ratcliffe is listed as contributor to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, and a 2022 interview with him was listed as a source in the blueprint’s Intelligence Community chapter.

J.D. Vance, vice-president
wrote a forward in Kevin Roberts upcoming book, praising him and heritage foundation.

Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget director
Vought is one of the architects of Project 2025, and he wrote the Mandate for Leadership’s Executive Office chapter