"To the surprise of no one, Trump's claim during the election that he knew nothing about Project 2025 was a lie. There is almost no one better positioned to advocate for the goals of Project 2025 than Vought—both because of his key role in drafting the agenda and because of the powerful position he will assume at OMB."

#Trump #Project2025 #Vought #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cruelty
/2

As Joyce Vance reminds us, before Trump made Bill Barr his attorney general, Barr sent out a memo "that was more or less an audition tape for the job he ultimately got." "In it, Barr argued in favor of what had previously been a fringe theory of a powerful 'unitary executive,' in other words, a president able to consolidate power at the expense of the other two branches as a very powerful leader."

#Trump #Project2025 #Vought #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cruelty
/3

joycevance.substack.com/p/proj…

Project 2025: It's On (Predictably)

Before Bill Barr became Donald Trump’s third attorney general, he circulated a memo that was more or less an audition tape for the job he ultimately got.

^{Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)}

"Vought is a proponent of a powerful executive and of restructuring our institutions to facilitate a government that veers toward the monarchical and away from the democratic."

#Trump #Project2025 #Vought #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cruelty #RussellVought
/4

"The bottom line is that all of the pieces of Project 2025 that we’ve discussed for the last year are in play. We’ve known that here, even though Project 2025 seemed to fall off the radar screen after Trump's ersatz denial. Now it’s clear that all of the horribles are on the table, everything from the end of the Department of Education to the discontinuation of the weather warnings NOAA provides."

#Trump #Project2025 #Vought #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cruelty #RussellVought
/5

"There was a tendency, even among people who weren’t going to vote for him, but also among a lot of people who did vote for him, including some that I know, to say: This is just the way Trump talks. He’s crazy. He just talks like this. It doesn’t have any meaning.

And I think what we’ve learned in the last 48 hours or 72 hours — I’m losing track of how many hours it is — is: No, he does mean it."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #Project2025 #ChristianNationalism #fascism
/6

anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/k…

Kicking down the guardrails

and a reminder that "guardrails" are just people

^{Anne Applebaum (Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum)}

"Donald Trump’s 'border czar' is threatening to round up undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles—whether local authorities like it or not.

Tom Homan, known for family separations and inhumane treatment of migrants at the southern border, said he would send 'twice as many officers' to Los Angeles should the city refuse to use their resources to hunt down migrants."

~ Alix Breeden

#Trump #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cruelty #immigrants #deportation
/7

dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/2…

Trump’s deportation thug threatens to flood LA with his goons

Donald Trump’s “border czar” is threatening to round up undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles—whether local authorities like it or not. Tom Homan, known for family separations and inhumane treatment of migrants at the southern border, said he would.

^{Daily Kos}