Activate as soon as you arrive at the White House Insurrection LawThe law, last amended in 1871, would allow the military to be stationed on American soil to suppress possible protests, send troops to police cities run by Democrats, and border borders.
Immediately appoint an attorney general who, in his first term, accepts the idea of ending the Justice Department’s independence to pursue his critics, opponents, and those he deems disloyal.
Weaken the protections that tens of thousands of public servants must clean up and deploy “conservative warriors” to help dismantle the administrative state. Belittled as the “deep state”.
“Take revenge” on the press. Bringing more independent government agencies under the control of the West Wing. Immigrant detention camps, mass deportations, and the end of asylum or birthright citizenship in the country.
Current priorities If Donald Trump manages to return to the US presidency in November 2024, the Republican favorite’s public and private messages and press articles detailing the situation are shaping up. plans potential second term. They set off alarm bells on this issue. radicalization of your offerfor reinforcing his autocratic tendencies and violent rhetoric, and even seeing a move towards an idea that has become the center of political debate in the United States in recent weeks: a potential dictatorship.
An extensive article-essay by historian published in ‘The Washington Post’ on November 30 Robert Kagan He assured that “the Trump dictatorship is becoming increasingly inevitable.” The above-mentioned article reviews the weakening of the checks and balances mechanisms that serve as a guarantee of democracy and the constant submission of a proposal. Republican Party Similar warnings made in interviews, columns and a book by Liz Cheney, who was prostrate at Trump’s feet, were added. A special section from ‘The Atlantic’ magazine was also added; In 24 articles under the heading “If Trump Wins,” this special explores endless analysis and warnings of “serious and extreme consequences” for a future as dystopian as possible, as well as from both progressive and non-progressive views. moderate Republicans.
The warning has grown louder as former president Trump, indicted on 91 charges in four federal criminal cases, breaks American democratic tradition and seeks to overturn the legal consequences of 2020. They brought victory to Joe Biden and the peaceful transition of power, he is the undisputed favorite today, with a 50-point lead over his main rivals in the Republican primaries in an average of polls conducted by Fivethirtyeight. He leads President Biden in key polls that will be decisive in November. Both in its own statements and in strategy, whether its own or those prepared by allied groups such as ‘Project 2025’, give us the courage to enter into this radical potential for a second term.
Language
Trump, conservative allies and advocates, accuse the media or figures like Kagan and Cheney of fueling paranoia, exaggerating or taking seriously the statement, which Republicans assured him was a “joke” as he said on Fox News. “Dictator only on the first day” (a statement he volunteered and later repeated when host Sean Hannity promised him not to abuse his power).
The truth is that he is repeating one of his already proven dangerous tactics, such as using a playful tone or promoting anti-democratic ideas in general, which contributes to desensitization to extremist approaches. Mark MilleyHe was the Chief of General Staff during his term and was one of those who stopped him in his first term. “He should be executed for treason”.
“If you repeat something enough, you normalize it. You are desensitizing everyone to the impact it will have if you follow through on what you intend and say. “He’s doing it as a joke, but that doesn’t mean he’s joking,” said Kim Lane Scheppele, a sociology professor at Princeton.
Trump also uses language that contains more than echoes of this Adolf Hitler or European fascism. For example, he repeatedly put forward the idea that “immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country” and said the following: “We will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and criminals of the radical left “Those who live like vermin within the borders of our country.”
“History shows that autocrats always tell you who they are and what they will do. We don’t listen to them until it’s too late,” he warned in a statement to ‘The New York Times.’ Ruth Ben Ghiathistorian, scholar of fascism and author of “Strong Men: From Mussolini to the Present”.
plans
If Trump returns to the White House, his absolute priority will be to choose the attorney general who will be the key person to implement what his team has already drafted with plans to end the 50-year precedent they sought after the Watergate scandal. Independence of the Ministry of Justice. He distances himself from lawyers he sees as too “institutionalist” or too soft on making the changes he wants, even conservative views. Federalist SocietyThis was the key to his first term. And he seeks new alliances so that he can put his plans into action to investigate and persecute those he sees as political rivals or former disloyal collaborators; Among these, he specifically identifies Milley; John Kelly, his private secretary; and William Barr, who serves as chief justice.
“You need to change your mindset, not your laws,” he explained. Russ VoughtHe is one of Trump’s allies, heads the Budget Office, and today is based at the Center for Renewing America, one of the idea laboratories devoted entirely to preparing for a potential second term. “You need an attorney general and a White House counsel who don’t see themselves as someone trying to protect the President’s Department.”
He’s also part of the same ‘think tank’ Jeffrey ClarkHe is the person charged in the federal case in Georgia and implicated in the attack on the Capitol, and who is now leading efforts to prepare for the possible enactment of the Insurrection Act, one of the actions that Trump has marked among his priorities. This situation most concerns experts at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice.
Plans to radically change the civil service system, eliminate protections against arbitrary dismissal of officials and turn multiple positions into political appointments are also causing particular alarm. This change, according to different calculations, It could affect 50,000 or even 100,000 officials.
Trump and his team of advisers are working on plans, but so is a spiritual conglomerate of think tanks and other conservative groups, from the Heritage Foundation behind the 2025 Presidential Transition Project to (his former adviser’s) America First Legal . Stephen Miller) or the Conservative Partnership Institute (by its last chief of staff, Mark Meadows). They create an ideological manifesto and develop everything from policy proposals, draft executive orders, reports and transition plans to staff recommendations, which they share with campaign advisers and Trump. And they are expanding a database they have already branded as “conservative LinkedIn,” where they hope to produce the army of “conservative warriors” Trump needs to carry out his plans.