Hopefully it will not be a date which will live in infamy. Hopefully we will still have a Democratic President. There are a number of article about what might happen if Trump wins.
The New Republic writes,
Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.By Melissa Gira GrantFebruary 8, 2024On January 20, 2025, conservatives plan to resurrect a 150-year-old defunct law to ban abortion across the nation. This is not a secret plan—far from it. It’s part of the 180-Day Playbook produced by Project 2025, detailing priorities for an incoming conservative president on day one. These 900 pages lay out a Christian nationalist vision of the United States, one in which married heterosexuality is the only valid form of sexual expression and identity; all pregnancies would be carried to term, even if that requires coercion or death; and transgender and gender-nonconforming people do not exist.Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is driven by such ideology. “Look at America under the ruling and cultural elite today,” writes Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, in the document’s foreword: “Children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries.” Project 2025 claims to present the “consensus recommendations” of “the entire conservative movement” for addressing purported crises like these: The first guiding principle is “Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.”The hundreds of pages that follow lay out specific plans for each department—from Health and Human Services and Education to Labor and Justice. Make no mistake: As steeped as Project 2025 is in the conspiratorial imagination of the right, its plan is comprehensive and dangerous. Health care providers, educators, employers, and the government’s own civil rights enforcement apparatus, among many others, would all be marshaled to ensure our acquiescence in this dictatorial male supremacist society.
When people say that this election is a matter of life and death to us, they are not kidding! These people dislike our guts along with our gay brothers and lesbian sisters! They want to bring back the time before the Stonewall Uprising!
With careful planning, conservatives today are working to make their policy priorities permanent—no matter what happens in future elections.Ms.By CARRIE N. BAKERFebruary 28, 2024Wealthy right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation has published a detailed plan for the next Republican president to use the executive branch of the federal government to attack the rights of women, LGBTQ people and the BIPOC community, by eliminating the agencies and offices responsible for enforcing civil rights laws and placing trained right-wing ideologues in staff positions throughout the federal government.Called the 2025 Presidential Transition Project—or “Project 2025,” for short—the plan has “four pillars”:1. an 887-page policy agenda,2. a presidential personnel database of vetted conservatives,3. a Presidential Administration Academy to train these people to achieve the Project 2025 policy agenda, and4. a 180-day playbook, which is what they hope to achieve in the first 180 days if Trump takes office in January 2025.To develop this plan, the Heritage Foundation organized a broad coalition of over 90 conservative organizations—a who’s-who of groups that have led attacks on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, gender studies, the Equal Rights Amendment and #MeToo initiatives.The coalition includes Concerned Women for America, the Independent Women’s Forum, the Eagle Forum, the Susan B. Anthony Foundation, Moms for Liberty, AAPLOG (the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists), Students for Life of America, Alliance Defending Freedom, First Liberty and Turning Point USA.
This is a “Who’s Who” of right-wing pundits!
Demonstration is Saturday at Heritage Foundation, author of Project 2025The Washington BladeBy Christopher KaneJanuary 25, 2024The Human Rights Campaign will join a coalition of groups for a rally on Saturday against Project 2025, the 887-page plan that would reshape American government if a Republican is elected president in 2024.The demonstration was organized by the Center for Popular Democracy as part of its yearlong Stop the Coup campaign. Participants will gather by the headquarters of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, which produced Project 2025, at 1 p.m.“A blueprint for a future dictatorship that reflects the GOP’s 2025 party platform” the Center for Popular Democracy wrote in a press release, “Project 2025 is an 887-page extremist GOP masterplan to systematically dismantle our federal government and democracy.”The document “envisions America as a future Christian theocracy and seeks to replace public education with the Bible” and was created by “The Heritage Foundation and 75 Christian groups” as “a radical plan to retake power in America.”
That is their ultimate goal, to bring back the time before the Stonewall Uprising! They want to create a theocracy, an utopian dream of the Handmaid's Tale.
The Advocate from November write,
Roberts outlines a vision of a nation in crisis. “Today, the American family is in crisis,” he wrote. “Children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries.”These statements, which include archaic language, have ignited outrage and concern for their implications on the rights and well-being of the transgender community.“Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare,” Roberts wrote. “It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women.”
All the world’s troubles are our fault. We are the scapegoats for society’s woes. It is not the billionaires hording their moneys, it is not the oligarchs, it is us the lonely trans community that only make up 0.5% of the people.
It is all about control! Control of the lives of proletariat by the bourgeoisie that is the Republican goal. They are stripping public educations, they want to make birth control illegal, the want to control women’s bodies, and for us in the LGBTQ+ community they want to eradicate us.
And a second term will affect more than us.
That is also my concern, he will pack the administration with his cronies.How Trump’s second term could be different from his first
The Hill
By Brett Samuels and Rebecca Beitsch
April 28, 2024Former President Trump’s pursuit of a second term in the White House could lead to an administration stocked with loyalists who are laser-focused on implementing Trump’s agenda and are willing to cater to his whims.
Critics, including some who have worked closely with Trump, have expressed concerns that a second Trump administration would have fewer officials willing to act as guardrails and would enable the former president to act more impulsively, in part because of his lame duck status.
“That is one of my biggest concerns about a second Trump administration, is there would be no guardrails,” said Sarah Matthews, a former Trump spokesperson who has become a critic of the ex-president. “I think there were a lot of people in the first Trump administration who were very skeptical of him but believed it was their duty to serve, so they went to go work for him to try and, I think, guide him and put him on a better path.”
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who backed Trump in 2016 and 2020 before running a primary campaign against Trump in the 2024 race, told The Washington Post the prospect of a “vendetta tour” was his greatest fear about a possible second Trump term.
When they show you who they are, believe them the first time.Maya Angelou
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