Project 2025 will cement America as a rightwing authoritarian state - midwest.social

The language of the linked article by Mr Barrington Salmon [https://michiganadvance.com/author/barrington-salmon] may seem to veer into conspiracy territory at times…if it was so well-documented. At the risk of “yelling into a echo chamber”… > “The actions of liberal politicians in Washington have created a desperate need and unique opportunity for conservatives to start undoing the damage the Left has wrought and build a better country for all Americans in 2025,” the Project 2025 manifesto [https://www.project2025.org/about/about-project-2025/] said. “It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.” > Meyerson, editor-at-large at The American Prospect, said far-right conservatives and The Heritage Foundation have an extensive enemies’ list that includes “welfare recipients, lazy and liberal civil servants, anti-business regulators, environmentalists, and union bosses, “scientists, woke bureaucrats, woke educators, woke diplomats, woke generals and admirals, woke G-men, and anyone who doesn’t indulge the next Republican president’s every whim (an adaptation to the likelihood of a Trump nomination),” in the commentary titled, “The Far Right Has a Plan to Remake America [https://prospect.org/politics/2023-11-27-far-right-blueprint-america/]. They Even Wrote It Down.” > America is at an inflection point, vacillating on a knife’s edge because of Trump, who has tapped into a deep reservoir of grievance, hatred [https://www.wxyz.com/trump-defends-comments-about-immigrants-poisoning-the-nation-s-blood] and resentment plans that will be fully unleashed in a second term. Trump’s incendiary rhetoric – mirroring Hitler and Mussolini – is convincing observers that he’s a fascist [https://www.wxyz.com/trump-declines-to-rule-out-abusing-power-for-retribution-if-reelected], to add to his authoritarian bent. # ⚜ ⚜ ⚜ > There is no more neutrality in the world. You either have to be part of the solution, or you’re going to be part of the problem. – Eldridge Cleaver [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldridge_Cleaver] # ⚜ ⚜ ⚜ [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://midwest.social/c/detroit] • [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://midwest.social/c/michigan]