Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.
Their plans to centralize more power in the Oval Office stretch far beyond the former president’s recent remarks that he would order a criminal investigation into his political rival, President Biden, signaling his intent to end the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence from White House political control.
Mr. Trump and his associates have a broader goal: to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House, according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and interviews with people close to him.
Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control.
It is, essentially, fascism. It is a plan to use the vast powers of the Federal government to stamp on opponents large and small and reward those who support the TOFF. That is what conservatives, beside the TOFF (who is only in it for the money) love to do. Conservatives haven't changed since the days of Jim Crow, when they used all means, legal or not, to crush Black people. The violent coup in Wilimgton, NC and the destruction of Black Wall Street in Tulsa were just two examples of that. It is, after all, conservatives, who spent over a century defending lynch law. It was Nixon who started the War on Drugs in order to punish two groups of people he didn't like (Blacks and hippies).
The article is outside the paywall, so judge for yourself.
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It's like he and DeathSantis are competing to outdo each other in Fascism. To the winner goes the jail sentence, I hope.
w3ski
In the "Project 2025" or whatever such horse shit they call their manifesto, it says they plan to "find all remaining areas of independence in the federal government and seize them."
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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