"Put Them In Trauma": Inside A Key MAGA Leader's Plans For A New Trump Agenda
Source: MSN/Huffington Post
A key ally to former President Donald Trump detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest, defund the Environmental Protection Agency and put career civil servants in trauma in a series of previously unreported speeches that provide a sweeping vision for a second Trump term.
In private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, Russell Vought, who served as Trumps director of the Office of Management and Budget, described his work crafting legal justifications so that military leaders or government lawyers would not stop Trumps executive actions.
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Vought does not hide his agenda or shy away from using extreme rhetoric in public. But the apocalyptic tone and hard-line policy prescriptions in the two private speeches go further than his earlier pronouncements. As OMB director, Vought sought to use Trumps 2020 Schedule F executive order to strip away job protections for nonpartisan government workers. But he has never spoken in such pointed terms about demoralizing federal workers to the point that they dont want to do their jobs. He has spoken in broad terms about undercutting independent agencies but never spelled out sweeping plans to defund the EPA and other federal agencies.
Voughts plans track closely with Trumps campaign rhetoric about using the military against domestic protesters or what Trump has called the enemy within. Trumps desire to use the military on U.S. soil recently prompted his longest-serving chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, to speak out, saying Trump certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.
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Republicans are increasingly open about their desire to implement a fascist regime, which in certain social media and right wing echo chambers is feature, rather than a defect. The problem is that most moderates and even some progressives, who do not reside in the same media universe as the right, don't really take this threat all that seriously, because everyone knows that Hitler and the Nazis were evil, right?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(115,828 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,599 posts)Skittles
(159,813 posts)absolute fucking terrorists
JHB
(37,441 posts)"The ongoing Sovietization of the Republican Party."
They;d be much more comfortable in a dictatorship, as long as they were the dictator.
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Martin Eden
(13,537 posts)These MAGA operatives and their Dear Leader fit that description more and more every day.
Despite their incessant lies, their is a certain honesty in how they are revealing what they are and how they intend to transform America into a fascist dystopia.