The Thriller
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Disturbing but unsurprising. President Ron DeSantis would accomplish the same thing without half the drama of Trump. With DeSantis, you get the same authoritarianism, grift, and racism as Trump, without the porn stars and drunk lawyers.Hmm. First I’ve heard of this.
Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his "America First” ideology, people involved in the discussions tell Axios.
The impact could go well beyond typical conservative targets such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Internal Revenue Service. Trump allies are working on plans that would potentially strip layers at the Justice Department — including the FBI, and reaching into national security, intelligence, the State Department and the Pentagon, sources close to the former president say.
During his presidency, Trump often complained about what he called “the deep state.”
The heart of the plan is derived from an executive order known as “Schedule F,” developed and refined in secret over most of the second half of Trump’s term and launched 13 days before the 2020 election.
The reporting for this series draws on extensive interviews over a period of more than three months with more than two dozen people close to the former president, and others who have firsthand knowledge of the work underway to prepare for a potential second term. Most spoke on condition of anonymity to describe sensitive planning and avoid Trump’s ire.
Republicans did with the judicial branch. So why not flood the executive with toadies? This is why the fight against authoritarianism is far from over. It didn’t begin with Trump nor will it end with Trump. There is a highly organized fascist movement in the United States. It involves think tanks like Heritage, funded by billionaires like the Kochs and Mercers, and is fueled by the most comprehensive propaganda/entertainment apparatus from Fox News to NRO. This poison is fed into millions of Americans nonstop via tv and Facebook.
We need a concerted effort to keep Republicans out of positions of power until this fascist movement fails.
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