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An older article, whose point is that Project 2025 supports the Unitary Executive model of executive branch power. Trump wants absolute power. A dictatorship. Loyalty oaths, removing Civil Service protections, employed by the president’s whim, fired by his whim. Replaced by loyalists. Trump is all for absolute power, in his hands, and only his hands. That’s pretty much a dictatorship, IMO.
www.peoplesworld.org
The 900-page blueprint calls for firing tens of thousands of public employees, dismantling the Department of Education and other federal agencies, imposing massive tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich, wiping out climate change regulation on behalf of oil and gas companies, abolishing anti-discrimination protections, severely restricting abortion access, and much more.
The centerpiece of the Heritage wishlist, though, is the implementation of what it calls the “unitary executive.” The proposal is a scheme for transitioning toward a more dictatorial presidency. It would place the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies like the Department of Justice, under direct and absolute presidential control.
Yearning for a dictator
Republican operatives have long yearned for a corporate-backed dictatorship, and the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling in Trump v. United States brings them closer than they’ve ever been to achieving it.
GOP lawyers have worked the legal system for decades in an effort to sideline Congress, undermine the authority of autonomous regulatory agencies in the government, the so-called “administrative state,” and accumulate unrestrained power in the White House.
In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon pushed the idea that he should be able to commit crimes while in office, telling a journalist, “When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.” He openly declared the end goal that Republicans pursued from that day forward.
During the Reagan years, Republican attorneys and think tanks started assembling constitutional theories to justify a president ignoring Congress and pursuing whatever policies he wanted. Later, they seized on security fears in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks to accumulate vast new powers for President George W. Bush.
The “unitary executive theory” was used to justify the invasion and military occupation of Iraq and the torturing of people in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons. Domestically, it entailed the creation of Cabinet-level “policy czars” – like the Director of Homeland Security – who reported only to the president and bypassed Congressional oversight. Bush also aggressively used “executive privilege” to block Congress from questioning many of his policies.
With Trump, the fascist wing of the Republican Party now has a leader eager to go all the way to fulfill the right’s authoritarian aspirations. He has no problem resorting to criminality or violence; he has a cult-like mass movement behind him; and, after packing the Supreme Court with extremist justices, he has a compliant court which is a willing accomplice.
Architect of Project 2025 cheers U.S.’ march toward dictatorship
On the eve of the United States’ 248th birthday, Kevin Roberts – president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank – cheered on the country’s descent toward dictatorship and made clear that the far right will not hesitate to use violence to achieve its aims.
www.peoplesworld.org
The 900-page blueprint calls for firing tens of thousands of public employees, dismantling the Department of Education and other federal agencies, imposing massive tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich, wiping out climate change regulation on behalf of oil and gas companies, abolishing anti-discrimination protections, severely restricting abortion access, and much more.
The centerpiece of the Heritage wishlist, though, is the implementation of what it calls the “unitary executive.” The proposal is a scheme for transitioning toward a more dictatorial presidency. It would place the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies like the Department of Justice, under direct and absolute presidential control.
Yearning for a dictator
Republican operatives have long yearned for a corporate-backed dictatorship, and the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling in Trump v. United States brings them closer than they’ve ever been to achieving it.
GOP lawyers have worked the legal system for decades in an effort to sideline Congress, undermine the authority of autonomous regulatory agencies in the government, the so-called “administrative state,” and accumulate unrestrained power in the White House.
In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon pushed the idea that he should be able to commit crimes while in office, telling a journalist, “When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.” He openly declared the end goal that Republicans pursued from that day forward.
During the Reagan years, Republican attorneys and think tanks started assembling constitutional theories to justify a president ignoring Congress and pursuing whatever policies he wanted. Later, they seized on security fears in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks to accumulate vast new powers for President George W. Bush.
The “unitary executive theory” was used to justify the invasion and military occupation of Iraq and the torturing of people in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons. Domestically, it entailed the creation of Cabinet-level “policy czars” – like the Director of Homeland Security – who reported only to the president and bypassed Congressional oversight. Bush also aggressively used “executive privilege” to block Congress from questioning many of his policies.
With Trump, the fascist wing of the Republican Party now has a leader eager to go all the way to fulfill the right’s authoritarian aspirations. He has no problem resorting to criminality or violence; he has a cult-like mass movement behind him; and, after packing the Supreme Court with extremist justices, he has a compliant court which is a willing accomplice.
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