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

[Lakhota]

Scary stuff.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[hadit]

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?

Wow! Yet another screed about destroying democracy, brought to you from those who insist democracy can only be saved by destroying it.

 

[Foxfyre]

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."

More at the link below...

'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?

In the first Trump term:

--two or more unnecessary or obsolete regulations were eliminated for every new one put on the books.

--Americans were allowed to keep far more of what they earned and had infinitely more choices, options, opportunities, and prosperity.

--Americans would not required to accept millions and millions of invaders into our country and to have our resources drained to take care of them.

--there was no demand that certain pronouns MUST be used to prevent violating somebody's 'civil rights.'

--there was no demand that CRT and sexualized material MUST be in the schools.

--there was no demand that oil be phased out in the next 10 years and everyone must use electric vehicles, appliances, etc.

--there was no demand for massive new taxes on the public to push ambiguous and poorly defined efforts to 'fight climate change.

--there was no demand that schools, communities, states could not prohibit vulgar, obscene and highly sexualized gay pride parades or tranny entertainment

--the government was not weaponized to take out, punish, ban, fire, arrest, jail political opponents of the administration.

Etc,
Etc.
Etc.

Trump's term of office was pretty much the opposite of the government we have under Biden which truly is autocratic.

There is no reason to think a second Biden term would not be even more autocratic.

There is no reason to think a second Trump term would be autocratic at all.

 

[Lesh]

This is no joke

Trump can NOT be allowed back in the White House

 

[Missourian]

Sounds ominous to me! What do you think?

 

[Lakhota]

 

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[Lakhota]

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

In today's News

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/05/trump-project-2025-heritage-foundation

Former President Trump on Friday disavowed the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, which has sparked widespread news coverage about policy plans for a potential second Trump administration.

Why it matters: Project 2025 has long annoyed Trump and his top campaign officials, despite the two entities sharing many allies. Lately, Democrats have been attacking Project 2025 as a proxy for the stakes of defeating "MAGA Republicans."

But his campaign echos just about every aspect of Project 2025.....He has already done this in his first term and will pick up where he left off if re-elected

How it works: Project 2025 is an effort to concentrate the president's control over the executive branch to override checks that otherwise could restrain his power.

• A key tenet of the project is "Schedule F," an executive order that would allow the president to strip thousands of federal employees of employment protections, fire them and replace them with ideological loyalists.
• Late in his previous administration, Trump signed an executive order creating a Schedule F job classification, which could apply to as many as 50,000 federal workers.

More evidence that he is lying:

The right-wing 'authoritarian' project aiming to destroy democracy: column

In a Monday, January 8 op-ed for The Oklahoman, columnist Richard C. "Dick" Hall warns the United States is "susceptible to converting our democracy to an authoritarian dictatorship based on" the right-wing's Project 2025 strategy — led by the political nonprofit The Heritage Foundation.Noting...

www.alternet.org

Noting that "Project 2025 echoes the steps taken that led to the rise of Nazi Germany," Hall writes, the program "builds off Heritage’s 'Mandate for Leadership.' The Trump administration relied on Heritage’s 'Mandate' for policy guidance during his term as president." He adds, Project 2025 is described as 'The Conservative Promise,' which lays out how to use many tools, including how to legally fire supposedly 'un-fireable' federal bureaucrats. Project 2025 is also referred to by the originators as the 'Presidential Transition Project.'

 

[Lakhota]

 

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[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

That's fair. I have agreements to at least some degree with them as well.

But this insane ignorant caveman politics crap is not a long term solution. It's counter-productive, but it's all they know.

I said the same thing to the lefties here with their stupid PC/Identity Politics crap, and it gave us Trump. I guess we'll see if I'm right again.

The regressive left will continue to berate us for our lack of 'awareness' and using the wrong pronouns. Magaturds continue to be conditioned to believe authoritarians only exist in a democrat vacuum. The gulf in logic is wide.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

This guy freaked out Trump with that one. A little to close to home. Trumps claim that he does not know who these people are and that he has nothing to do with them is pure and utter bovine excrement. The fact is that Trump is joined at the hip with these people.

He does that shit all of the time. He claimed that he did not know who David Duke, or Nick Fuentes was either.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/politics/trump-distance-project-2025?cid=ios_app

Trump’s campaign has sought for months to make clear that Project 2025 is not its official policy platform amid an intensifying effort by President Joe Biden and Democrats to tie Trump to its more controversial policies.

Yet those efforts are complicated by Trump’s extremely close relationship with many of the people who launched Project 2025 or helped contribute to it. Paul Dans, the head of Project 2025, was chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management during the Trump administration, and the group’s roadmap for the next administration includes contributions from others who have worked for the former president, including his former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, former acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli and former deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn. John McEntee, Trump’s former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office and one of his closest aides while in office, is also a senior adviser for the project.

 

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[Dragonlady]

I don’t know if it’s half but there are plenty, and you are right…and all of them are out of a job because trump came in and cleaned house. Who can blame them for whining

All of them were working for MSNBC BEFORE Trump ran for office.

Joe Scarborough has been on Morning Joe since 2007. Michael Steele has been the network since 2011. Nicolle Wallace since 2014. All of these people predate Trump's run for office.

None of them are whining.