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Originally Posted by somigosaden
Your belief of Trump being a murderous fascist isn't shaken by the fact that he was already president and he didn't do any of the Hitler-esque things you're claiming he'll do?
Donald Trump’s plans to establish a virtual dictatorship should he win the White House again in the 2024 election are even worse than we thought. Call it the presidency uber alles.
Trump would suspend parts of the Constitution, as he threatened to do to keep himself in power. He’d replace the non-partisan civil service with political sycophants ready to do his bidding. And he’d claim the powers of the president are absolutely unlimited, as he did in 2019.
But according to the New York Times, he’d take over the judiciary, emasculate independent agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board, and virtually obliterate Congress’s power of the purse.
Indeed, you could make a plausible argument Trump has already taken over the judiciary, thanks to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and the right-wing Federalist Society.
The society’s gray eminence, Leonard Leo, sat in the White House rating the hundreds of judicial nominees—including three Supreme Court justices—Trump seated on federal benches. If they passed ideological litmus tests, black robes were their reward.
One of them, a Federalist Society member, is Aileen Cannon, the Florida federal judge now presiding over Trump’s trial in the purloined White House secret papers case.
And just to make sure he’d get away with all of this, Trump argued in federal appeals court last December that a president has absolute immunity from any prosecution for anything, according to the Constitutional Accountability Center, which successfully opposed him.
There’s a key difference between now and when Trump entered the Oval Office in 2017. Then, he had no structure in place to implement his dictatorial aims. Indeed, his White House was rather slapdash. And it kept losing “power” cases in the federal courts.
Now, starting in 2021, a think tank, the America First Policy Institute, run by former Trumpite officials, has put together position papers on policies he can implement. Both the Times and Vanity Fair have delved even further into Trump’s dictatorial plans. Here’s what they found:
Trump bases his plans on “a maximalist version of the so-called unitary executive theory,” says Vanity Fair. “The legal theory rejects the idea the government is composed of three separate branches with overlapping powers to check and balance each other.
“Instead, adherents argue that Article 2 of the Constitution gives the president complete control of the executive branch, so Congress cannot empower agency heads to make decisions or restrict the president’s ability to fire them.” One adherent: Trump. He told a campaign crowd in 2019 that Article 2 of the Constitution means the president can do whatever he wants
Replacing the non-partisan, non-political civil service with political hacks at the top and workers cowed into submission below them, doing Trumpite bidding at the risk of being fired.
“The president’s plan should be to fundamentally reorient the federal government in a way that hasn’t been done since FDR’s New Deal,” former Trump White House Office of Personnel Management chief John McEntee told the Times. McEntee charged liberals created the federal bureaucracy to implement their goals, claiming a Trump takeover doesn’t mean just changing the names, but changing the structure by “a complete system overhaul.”
McEntee and the right-wing Heritage Foundation are leading a $22 million Project 2025 “preparing policies, personnel lists, and transition plans to recommend to any Republican who may win the 2024 election,” Vanity Fair reported. The scale of the project “is unprecedented in conservative politics.”
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article...an-we-realize/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo
Last edited by barney big nuts; 11-15-2023 at 10:34 PM.