"Trump 47 isn’t a sequel.

"Less than 10 days from having been elected to return to the White House, Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants to hobble, if not destroy, significant parts of the federal government.

That could cause widespread harm. That, in turn, could lead Trump to seek to use those harms that he causes as excuses to invoke emergency powers — granting even more authority to himself and his cronies. It only gets darker from there."

~ Chris Geidner

#Trump #fascism
/6

https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-wants-his-criminal-lawyers

William Lindsey :toad:

"This newsletter is for all Americans, but especially those 75 million of you who didn’t vote for Donald Trump because you knew, or at least suspected, his fully authoritarian bent would reveal itself sooner rather than later.

Welcome to sooner."

~ Dan Rather

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/7

https://steady.substack.com/p/wait-who-for-what

William Lindsey :toad:

"This is a story about government corruption. ...

Corruption is going to be one of the most important themes of the next four years. Trump has been unleashed to grab every dollar he can for himself, and use the power of the government to enrich a parade of America’s worst people…."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/8

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-and-musks-department-of-government

William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump’s team apparently hopes that a pliant Supreme Court will declare the 1974 Impoundment Control Act unconstitutional, permitting Trump—or Vice President J.D. Vance, should Trump not be able to fulfill his term—to shape the government without consulting Congress.

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/9

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-14-2024

Steve Woods

@wdlindsy What is a state run by a bunch of asset strippers and malicious incompetents - a klepto-kakistocracy?

William Lindsey :toad:

"[RFKJr] will destroy our public health infrastructure and our vaccine distribution systems. This is going to cost lives.”

~ Robert Garcia quoted by Maya Yang

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/10

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/trump-administration-rfk-criticisms

William Lindsey :toad:

"If Trump aims to turn America into a police state, these are the officials he will utilize. After only 10 days as president-elect, he appears to be on his way."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/11

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/total-control

William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump wants to use the military against the American people. Do you trust that Pete Hegseth wouldn’t obey an unlawful order?"

~ Evan Hurst

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/12

https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/pete-hegseth-is-trumps-choice-for

William Lindsey :toad:

"A new Trump regime would also operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its political cause. Almost all the factors that inhibited the extreme Right during the first Trump presidency are no longer present; all the guardrails that kept Trump and the more extreme rightwing factions in check after 2017 have been vastly weakened or destroyed entirely."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/13

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-second-trump-regime-will

William Lindsey :toad:

"Donald Trump's MAGA fascism has clearly been embraced by a majority of Americans who voted. ...

Let's be honest and admit that things are going to get worse."

~ Wendell Griffen

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/14

https://fierceprohetichope.blogspot.com/2024/11/thinking-about-2024-us-presidential.html

William Lindsey :toad:

And there's this, which is absolutely not disconnected from all the things mentioned in the thread above:

"The price of bitcoin hit an all-time high of more than $93,000 yesterday."

~ Lora Kelley

#Trump #fascism #democracy #cruelty #future
/15

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/11/crypto-trump-congress-normalization/680664/

bouriquet

@wdlindsy They already suspected Trump of violating the ICA in 2019. But how could SCOTUS declare ICA unconstitutional when it supports separation of powers? The President still can veto a funding bill for the budget, but fortunately does not have line item veto.

William Lindsey :toad:

@bouriquet I fear we've seen that SCOTUS will do anything it wishes — this SCOTUS — without any regard for precedent or even basic human decency.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wood5y A good term for it.

Steve Woods

@wdlindsy Thank'ee kindly!