-- Moms For Liberty co-founder Bridget Zeigler, in a text message to husband Christian Zeigler, on his prowling bars in Florida for women for them both to have sex with.
The fascists believed that you have to destroy to create,
and this is what a second Trump administration would do.
Project 2025 is a plan for an authoritarian takeover of the United States that goes by a deceptively neutral name.
It preserves Trumpism’s original radical intent in its goals to “[d]ismantle the administrative state” and “decentralize and privatize as much as possible,” allowing the American people to “live freely.”
“[T]he Trump administration, with the best of intentions, simply got a slow start,” Heritage Foundation head #Kevin#Roberts told The New York Times in January. “And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.”
The solution to this “slow start”
—code for the restraints imposed by operating in a democracy
—is counterrevolution.
The plan promises the abolition of the Department of Education and other federal agencies.
The intent here is to destroy the legal and governance cultures of liberal democracy and create new bureaucratic structures,
staffed by new politically vetted cadres,
to support autocratic rule.
So new agencies could appear to manage parents’ and family rights, Christian affairs, and other pillars of the new order.
🔥The Department of Health and Human Services is poised to have a central role in governance, 👉😱given the priorities Trumpism places on policing sexuality, weaponizing motherhood, persecuting transgender people and LGBTQ communities, and criminalizing abortion.
Rachel #Maddow on Bradley W. Hart's superb "Star-Spangled Fascism" podcast:
"The harder thing for us to sort of sit with, as Americans, is that there have been fascistic tendencies, fascistic movements in America ... for longer than we like to admit."
How about voting in the #EuropeanUnion, a 👉confederation of sovereign nation?
"All EU country also have the right to vote and stand as candidate in local or municipal elections in the country they live in, again under the same conditions as the...
“Project 2025” is a plan to execute what amounts to a comprehensive authoritarian takeover of American government.
Broadly speaking, it envisions a vast expansion of presidential power over the executive branch.
Moreover, “Project 2025” seeks to dismantle certain parts of government, the administrative state, and federal agencies
– while simultaneously mobilizing and weaponizing others.
Finally, “Project 2025” is a promise to purge from government anyone who is not all in on the Trumpist project and replace them with loyalists and ideological conformists. #project2025#authoritarianism#heritagefoundation#TrumpIsJustATool#christifascism https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-project-2025-would-do-to-america?r=2263j&triedRedirect=true
Donald B. Ayer, the deputy attorney general under George H. W. Bush, said:
"Project 2025 seems to be full of a whole array of ideas that are designed to let Donald Trump function as a dictator, by completely eviscerating many of the restraints built into our system.
He really wants to destroy any notion of a rule of law in this country ...
The reports about Donald Trump's Project 2025 suggest that he is now preparing to do a bunch of things totally contrary to the basic values we have always lived by.
If Trump were to be elected and implement some of the ideas he is apparently considering, no one in this country would be safe."
Lisa Needham issues a warning: they're coming for birth control next:
"On X, Heritage’s official account posted last year that 'a good place to start would be a feminist movement against the pill and … returning the consequentiality to sex.'
"Religious conservatives are calling for a return to a world where sex isn’t recreational or for pleasure but is instead fraught with consequences — namely, pregnancies that can’t be terminated even when the pregnant person’s life is in danger."
"They are coming for birth control pills (and other forms of contraception). They are coming for the very concept of recreational sex — sex for fun (which, yes, partnered and married people do too!). Sex, they argue, should come with 'consequences.' Or, as the Heritage Foundation put it, conservatives should focus on 'restoring the consequentiality to sex.'”
Robert Hur better really want a nice job at the Heritage Foundation or the Claremont Institute (John Eastman's chair is available,) because he's otherwise a toxic partisan hack.