Thomas ZimmerFeb 13, 2024

The biggest challenge in 2024 is to get enough people to actually listen to what Trump and those around him are openly, consistently, and explicitly promising to do once they get back to power.

It is utterly deranged, and discounting it as just rhetoric would be a disaster.

Show threadThomas ZimmerFeb 13, 2024
If there are people around you who believe “it won’t be *that* bad,” people who are annoyed by what they perceive as liberal “alarmism,” just read this out loud to them a few times and force them to actually reflect on what Miller is outlining here. It’s utterly terrifying.
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Let this one resonate a while: No meaningful checks on abuse of the Insurrection Act, which Trump is constantly promising to invoke; no reliable safeguards whatsoever.

Please read the whole piece by Ron Brownstein: These are the stakes in the 2024 election, outlined with sickening clarity.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/02/trumps-immigration-plan-is-even-more-aggressive-now/677385/

Trump’s Immigration Plan Is Even More Aggressive Now

The former president and his aides are formulating plans to deport millions of migrants.

The Atlantic
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Show threadThomas ZimmerFeb 13, 2024

I’m getting a lot of “Trump promised to build The Wall in 2016 and that never happened, so this is all just more empty threats from a bunch of clowns” comments.

A lot of people simply do not grasp how fundamentally different the situation going into a second Trump presidency would be.

Show threadThomas ZimmerFeb 13, 2024
We need to grapple with the fact that the Right - through “Project 2025”-style planning, preparing, staffing, and because of a different environment (SC, fully Trumpified GOP, ubiquitous threat of violence) - would be in a position to translate more of that rhetoric into action than during Trump I.
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Feb 13, 2024
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I don’t see clear-eyed takes on what people should do when the Face-Eating Leopard comes to town.
Show threadTon ChrysopraseFeb 13, 2024
@tzimmer_history At least we have clearly established how Hitler could rise to power. Back in the day you had to fight your way through a book’s worth of turgid prose to understand what was going on. Now you get the receipts electronically beforehand and people still can’t be arsed to prevent the worst.
Show threadSue StrongFeb 15, 2024

@tzimmer_history Glad you mentioned it. Whoever the GOP nominates will follow it in case anyone thinks Nikki Haley endorsed by Koch would be a better choice than Trump. Fully Trumpified Heritage Foundation too. Wonder how far back they will roll back rights 1850?

https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

Show threadJ.H.NoyesFeb 13, 2024

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Most of what Republicans wanted to accomplish during the Trump Administration was accomplished with Biden in the Oval Office. I don't even know what they want now because Biden let them get most of what they've wanted over the past 40 years. His idea of leadership has been to give Republicans and fascist techbros what they want while telling Democrats that they're the ones winning. It doesn't feel like winning, it feels like being a fucking doormat.

Show threadlupus_blackfurFeb 13, 2024

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Would that I had more than just one boost to give...

This requires ultimate amplification.

Show threadJohn L. RobersonFeb 13, 2024
@tzimmer_history And that's what he means by "dictator for the first day."
And then he would continue to be. The most ridiculous, horrific, and in fact CHILDISH abuses of power that anyone ever dismissed as impossible are absolutely the first things he'd go for.
Show threadJohn L. RobersonFeb 13, 2024
@tzimmer_history No doubt he'd call every day from that point onward part of "Day One." He'd have a whole marketing campaign about it
Show threadJohn L. RobersonFeb 13, 2024
@tzimmer_history You know those little banana republics we used to exploit, where the dictator got to do whatever he wanted to his people as long as he kept giving the US the nation's resources at a bargain rate and providing a captive market for US goods like Coca-Cola?
That's what #Trump wants the US to BE, with #Russia in the role of the US.
Show threadiweinFeb 13, 2024

@tzimmer_history we know by now the percentage of stupid, and the outside evil influence in the USA are ample to make this the gravest risk of pulling total societal collapse forward in time.

We're all really scared, so can us peeps please educate yourself and put your democracy in order?

Show threadLeaBugFeb 13, 2024
@tzimmer_history all Trump would have to do is Federalize the National Guard.
Show threadAriaflameFeb 19, 2024
@LeaBug @tzimmer_history The saddest thing is that apparently people believe that your fellow citizens who are in the guard would follow his illegal orders without question.
Show threadLeaBugFeb 20, 2024
@ariaflame @tzimmer_history they think we detain people at GITMO too.
Show threadCiggy Bringer of SmokeFeb 13, 2024
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