So, to review. We've already learned about some of the Malignant Loser's plans should he return to office, in the form of "Project 2025":
A massive operation to detain and deport undocumented immigrants.
A purge of the federal workforce of anyone deemed disloyal.
Wielding the power of federal law enforcement against political enemies.
As he seeks a return to the Oval Office, former President Donald Trump and his allies have promised a sweeping transformation of the federal government that would wield the executive branch’s power in radical and unprecedented ways.
The agenda they are crafting would put into practice Trump’s hardline views that he has publicly expressed during his latest campaign for president and will almost certainly face a series of legal and political challenges...
The latest wrinkle involves how the Malignant Loser would maintain order as his fascist regime put its plans into place:
Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from using the military to quell violence in primarily Democratic cities and states.
Calling New York City and Chicago “crime dens,” the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination told his audience, “The next time, I’m not waiting. One of the things I did was let them run it and we’re going to show how bad a job they do,” he said. “Well, we did that. We don’t have to wait any longer.”
Trump has not spelled out precisely how he might use the military during a second term, although he and his advisers have suggested they would have wide latitude to call up units. While deploying the military regularly within the country's borders would be a departure from tradition, the former president already has signaled an aggressive agenda if he wins, from mass deportations to travel bans imposed on certain Muslim-majority countries.
A law first crafted in the nation’s infancy would give Trump as commander in chief almost unfettered power to do so, military and legal experts said in a series of interviews.
The Insurrection Act allows presidents to call on reserve or active-duty military units to respond to unrest in the states, an authority that is not reviewable by the courts. One of its few guardrails merely requires the president to request that the participants disperse...(our emphasis)
(And we can already see how the media is playing this --"a departure from tradition," "an aggressive agenda". Wtf.)
No one alive today has ever seen a greater threat to American democracy -- to the rule of law, reproductive freedom, free and fair elections, voting rights, vulnerable populations, etc. -- than what we're witnessing now. None of this is normal. The Malignant Loser is far from normal. His party/ cultists are far from normal. Media coverage is far from normal.
This is what an existential threat looks like. All we have, in the end, is our ballot. We must not waste it.
