Steve SilbermanJul 13, 2024
If you wish you had a succinct, mainstream explanation of the horrors of Trump's Project 2025 you could send to your friends and relatives, People magazine has provided one. Please spread this link. No matter how bad you think it is, it's worse. https://people.com/what-is-project-2025-inside-far-right-plan-trump-presidency-8622964
What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Education

Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. government and restricts people's freedoms

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@stevesilberman This is the USA equivalent of the German Enabling Act of 1933 which gave the Chancellor the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the legislature. It also kneecapped the judicial system (which mostly consisted of far right judges by then anyway). Extreme violence was used against recalcitrants with total immunity for the perpetrators (chiefly the SA or Brownshirts).
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Show threadRicoJul 13, 2024
@stevesilberman There was an immediate spark for The Enabling Act—even though the process and road towards it were long in coming. The spark being the Reichstag fire (housing the legislature) caused by a confused halfwit. Let’s see what happens after today.