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From Thom Hartmann: the billionaire-funded Heritage Foundation is pulling together fully 20,000 hard-core rightwingers to staff a new Trump administration starting on day one. This time here will be none of the bumbling characterized by Trump’s first three years. We could go from democracy to authoritarianism in a matter of months, much like happened in Germany in 1933, as Trump also fulfills his promises to realign America with Russia and Saudi Arabia and abandon our democratic allies around the world.

In April of 2022 The Heritage Foundation announced the launch of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, a new initiative exclusively focused on preparing the next administration with conservative policy recommendations and the properly vetted and trained personnel needed to take back America.

The 2025 Presidential Transition Project builds off Heritage’s longstanding “Mandate for Leadership,” which has been highly influential for presidential administrations since the Reagan administration. Most recently, the Trump administration relied heavily on Heritage’s “Mandate” for policy guidance, embracing nearly two-thirds of Heritage’s proposals within just one year in office.

Heritage also announced that Paul Dans, former chief of staff of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Trump administration, will join the organization as director of this initiative.

Trump wants to get rid of the civil servants and here is his well for new employees dedicated to him, not the Constitution. He has also said he wants to get rid of the Constitution.

Former President Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election and reinstate him to power Saturday in a continuation of his election denialism and pushing of fringe conspiracy theories.

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Thank you for another critically important essay. Oof, thats depressing.

It makes me think we’re really screwed here. It was one thing when our crazed authoritarians were opposing crazed communist authoritarians in the balance for global power. They perhaps both did much damage but the overall trajectory of the world was positive, in some ways balanced towards a moderate middle ground. But now, Putin and this band of a-holes are essentially on the same page as the dark elements within our society and power structures. The Chinese are not exactly left wingers any more. Britain is as dark as the USA. France and Germany are better but still conflicted and have very little military clout if push comes to shove.

Even with just controlling one house of congress, Republicans can essentially tank the USA and the world order in the process...and they appear poised to do so.

Thank you for speaking up about it. Why is this not the main topic of every news broadcast?

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