• kescusay@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Doesn’t matter now. He’s rapidly destroying the regulatory infrastructure and sending his brown shirts out to sow fear and confusion. He is a fascist, the rest of the Republican party are his enablers, and things are going to get super mega shitty before they get better.

    If they get better.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      He is a fascist, the rest of the Republican party are his enablers

      The rest of the Republican party are his sycophants and subordinates. It’s the “moderate” Democrats who are his enablers, through inaction.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      29 days ago

      He’s rapidly destroying the regulatory infrastructure and sending his brown shirts out to sow fear and confusion.

      It’s literally the playbook from Bush’s “Shock and Awe” campaign turned on US citizens (minus the indiscriminate bombing). It amounts to the same thing, though. It’s a blitz, do so much so fast it sets everybody off balance and puts them in a state of shock.

      Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) is a military strategy based on the use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy’s perception of the battlefield and destroy their will to fight.

      Project 2025 wants to shock people into obedience. The flurry of Executive Orders are part of this shock treatment, as are the deportations, and roadblocks suddenly thrown up in front of government agencies. They intend to shock us and cripple our ability to respond via governance.


      EDIT: Turns out, Klein agrees.

      Trump is a rolling shock machine, which a recipe for keeping us scattered and reactive to the latest shocking news. There will be moments when we need to react forcefully and meaningfully to protect one another.

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        28 days ago

        His shock and awe may shock his violence prone brown headed Magas into pulling another 2nd amendment solution on him or his helpers - this time more successfully.