Project 2025 blueprint for second Trump term envisages replacing thousands of career staff with political loyalists
America’s career diplomats are braced for the threat of a mass purge if Donald Trump wins the November election and for the potential flooding of the state department with loyalty-tested political appointees.
Rather than leading to a seamless change of course in a rightward Trumpist direction, the diplomats’ union and former ambassadors argue, such an attempted takeover would be much more likely to end in legal challenges, gridlock and chaos.
If elected, Trump has threatened to reinstate a policy he unsuccessfully attempted in his first term with the creation of “Schedule F”, a new category of federal employees which would be applied to tens of thousands of civil servants in “policy-related” jobs, robbing them of legal protections and making them liable to be fired at will.
“Likely?”
A purge of any government agency would cause chaos. They work because of lifetime civil servants who are dedicated to making things work regardless of who is in charge.
He purged the State Department at the beginning of his presidency, so we already understand the damage it will do:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/state-department-purge-trump-foreign-policy
That’s probably the least insane part about Project 2025
Project contributor Jeffrey Clark advises the future president to immediately deploy the military for domestic law enforcement and direct the DOJ to pursue Donald Trump’s adversaries by invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807. The Project recommends the arrest, detention, and deportation of undocumented immigrants. It promotes capital punishment and the speedy “finality” of such sentences.
Using the military to hunt dissidents and then recommending “speedy” capital punishment is pretty on-brand for conservatives.
It’s humorous (in a hopeless, resigned, utterly defeated nihilistic sort of way) how transparent the fascism has gotten. “Trump’s advisor recommends jack-booted thugs use legal pretext to punish political opponents without due process.”
At least give me some subtext to decode, don’t slap me in the face with it like a wet slice of bologna.
The GOP primarily used dog whistles until Trump showed them you can just say the quiet part out loud and MAGA will eat it up.
Hitler’s Germany has shown you only really need about a third of the people to be behind fascism for it to succeed (Hitler won with 35 percent of the popular vote). In the US, it looks like that percentage has already been reached.
Unless they plan on repealing the Posse Comitatus Act, the military cannot be ordered to serve as law enforcement on US soil.
- That’s why they reference the Insurrection Act. Whether the current situation meets the criteria laid out does not matter to them.
- It should be obvious by now that words on the books do not stop fascists. They intend to stack public institution far and deep with party loyalists so that nobody can say “no” to their will…legally, anyway.
I looked the Insurrection Act up. This kind of vague, old law is just the kind of thing that fascists love to leverage to install a brutal dictatorship. The GOP learned that they can do pretty much whatever they want and will get no meaningful resistance, so it would be pathetically easy for them to get rid of democracy once they have the Executive and Legislative branches again. The only saving grace is that they’re pretty incompetent at actually getting things done, but we can’t rely on that to save us again.
They can do anything they want if the Supreme Court rules 5-4 and says they can.
Well that’ll never happen… because they have a 6-3 majority so it’ll be a 6-3 ruling.
It’s adorable that people think piddling things like laws will stop fascists
So. Like…
those diplomats get the Captain Obvious award for the day.
Somebody tell them what they’ve won!
EnRussification of US
The quest of making the United States of America a part of the Trump organization. I don’t know how not many see this.
Due to DNC and Biden inaction and corruption there is a massive enough majority who will set the world on fire and watch as it all burns down.
When Drumpf wins Nov2024 you will know who to blame for this fiasco. And it will be too little too late. Start planning for a mass exodus to Mexico or Canada.
When a large enough brain-drain happens, there is a direct national impact. So if enough sensible people leave after Nov2024, there will be enough stagnation and consequences that most govt operations should grind to almost non-existence. Come Nov2028 if y’all 'Muricans foreign or domestic can’t take back the govt with absolute majorities, forget about it all for the next 50 years. Once enough SCOTUS replacement happens, maybe, maybe there will be a chance to cleanup all the damage and pickup the pieces.
Come Nov2028 if y’all 'Muricans foreign or domestic can’t take back the govt with absolute majorities, forget about it all for the next 50 years
Project 2025 is specifically meant to prevent conservatives from losing power once Trump is elected – they’re literally planning to use the military as domestic law enforcement to “quell unrest on election day” and to use the DOJ to hunt “Trump’s adversaries.” I wouldn’t be surprised if the coming presidential election was the last free election the US sees.
