By Dartagnan | 8 September 2024
Daily Kos
Autocracy: Rules for Survival
It might be worth considering the rules I’ve learned for surviving in an autocracy and salvaging your sanity and self-respect.
By @mashagessen in @nybooks https://t.co/R9THlOIkV0 pic.twitter.com/DDOUJVUFuS— Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) July 18, 2024
From the New York Times, September 7, 2024:
Former President Donald J. Trump vowed to vastly reshape the federal bureaucracy on Saturday in a wide-ranging, often unfocused speech at a rally in Wisconsin.
He pledged to ultimately eliminate the Department of Education, redirect the efforts of the Justice Department and fire civil servants charged with carrying out Biden administration policies that he disagreed with.
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Many of the proposals in Mr. Trump’s speech align with plans reported by The New York Times to conduct a broad expansion of presidential power over government, and to effectively concentrate more authority within the White House, if he wins in November.
And many of his pledges dovetailed with the stated goals and proposals of Project 2025, an effort by a group of conservative organizations to develop policies for the next Republican president…[.]
Oh FFS, stop the insufferable sanewashing.
Trump 'laying out a vision'….The man is as capable of delivering coherent, intelligent speech as a hippo is of performing Swan Lake.https://t.co/FTgC85hVpK
— Raoul J de Groot& (@raouljdegroot) September 9, 2024
Even the New York Times is now acknowledging what people on this site and elsewhere have been saying saying over and over and over again.
This is the plan. It’s his plan, and it will be implemented if he’s put back into office.
People in this country need to think long and hard about what that means for any future they might imagine themselves living in. Not just their futures, but the futures of their children.
It is not pretty. It is not escapable. It is a horror, a blueprint for the destruction of this country.
Not sure what else I can say that hasn’t already been said.
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