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.

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.

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

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.

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.
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I don’t see clear-eyed takes on what people should do when the Face-Eating Leopard comes to town.