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TomCADem

(17,772 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 12:21 AM Oct 29

"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 Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, described his work crafting legal justifications so that military leaders or government lawyers would not stop Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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 don’t 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.

Vought’s plans track closely with Trump’s campaign rhetoric about using the military against domestic protesters or what Trump has called the “enemy within.” Trump’s 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.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/put-them-in-trauma-inside-a-key-maga-leader-s-plans-for-a-new-trump-agenda/ar-AA1t5p5R?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=56827e6e64114f009374e3c75b8d00c0&ei=15



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?


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"Put Them In Trauma": Inside A Key MAGA Leader's Plans For A New Trump Agenda (Original Post) TomCADem Oct 29 OP
Sounds like a major asshole Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 29 #1
The radicalized Republican party is an ongoing threat to the United States. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 29 #2
they are terrorists Skittles Oct 29 #4
Or, as I like to phrase it based on several decades of behavior..., JHB Oct 29 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Oct 29 #3
"Enemy within" means a threat to the US Constitution, our civil institutions, and to the safety & liberty of The People Martin Eden Oct 29 #6

JHB

(37,441 posts)
5. Or, as I like to phrase it based on several decades of behavior...,
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 03:44 AM
Oct 29

"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

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6. "Enemy within" means a threat to the US Constitution, our civil institutions, and to the safety & liberty of The People
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 05:34 AM
Oct 29

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.

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