With #Republicans, in contrast, #PamBondi was smooth & solicitous. She expressed her #fealty to #Trump, calling him “the most transparent president in American history” & saying that she’d “loved” seeing a photo of herself having dinner with him. The almost 5hr hearing was a portrait of an AG as the president’s #loyalist rather than as a constitutional officer with the appropriate respect for an equal branch of government.

#law #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState

…#KashPatel’s nom as #FBI director is also considered a harder sell.

…The display of #fealty on Capitol Hill reflects #Trump’s far greater command over the #Republican Party than when he was first sworn in to office in 2017. In 2016, Republican senators had outperformed Trump on the ballot & felt little debt to the political novice. This time, almost every incoming senator in a competitive race underperformed Trump, & the party has been remade in his image.

#JFC #law #democracy #autocracy

“That’s the big question,” #RuthBenGhiat said, adding that it depends partly on #Trump’s ability to impose party #fealty, #intimidate critics & install competent bureaucrats who are effective at using levers of #power to advance his personal aims.

“It is about criminalizing #dissent,” she said. “There is a method to his madness in that he has taken people on a journey of #indoctrination.”

#law #autocracy #tyranny #authoritarianism #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

How #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump Will attempt Mold #America “in the Image of a #Dictatorship”.

#Reproductiverights #crackdowns, #massdeportations, and a #fealty-based #federal #bureaucracy. The former president has disavowed #Project2025, but #VanityFair’s #MollyJongFast and #JeffSharlet say his #fingerprints are all over it.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/how-donald-trump-will-mold-america-in-the-image-of-a-dictatorship

The meditative ritual might appear incongruent w/the raucous epicenter of the nation’s #conservative movement, but #Trump’s political creed stands as one of the starkest examples of his effort to transform the #GOP into a kind of #ChurchOfTrump. His insistence on absolute #devotion & #fealty can be seen at every level of the party, from #Congress to the #RNC to rank-&-file #voters.

#MAGA #pride #greed #wrath #envy #lust #gluttony #sloth #idolatry #Blasphemy #Violence #Adultery #Thief #Liar