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I'm going to follow OneTrumper's suggestion and use AI:

Donald Trump's second term differs from his first through a faster pace of executive actions, an administration staffed strictly by loyalists rather than establishment guardrails, and a more aggressive use of presidential power.

Key Differences in Governance and Staffing

Staffing and Loyalty: According to the NPR Analysis on Trump's Second Term, the second administration is filled with ultra-loyalists. In contrast, his first term featured establishment figures and traditional advisors who frequently pushed back or acted as internal restraints.
Executive Actions and Speed: Trump moved with significantly greater speed in his second term, signing hundreds of executive orders (focused heavily on immigration, foreign policy, and tariffs) during his opening months at a rate that outpaced his 2017 start.
Federal Government Reshaping: Rather than focusing primarily on judicial appointments as he did early in his first term, Trump has targeted broader federal agency restructuring, attempting to install personnel and policies designed to outlast his administration.

Policy and Institutional Approach

Tariffs and Trade: The second term has relied heavily on sweeping unilateral tariffs and rapid trade disputes involving global allies and neighbors like Canada and Mexico.
Executive Power Boundaries: Analysis from the American Enterprise Institute notes that Trump entered office with a deeper familiarity with federal levers, expressing less patience with traditional bureaucratic or legal roadblocks and openly testing the limits of presidential authority.
Public and Political Climate: According to YouGov Polling Data, a majority of the public perceives the second term as involving more aggressive domestic enforcement, heightened use of federal and military forces, and increased political polarization.

But we're the fascist.
BWAAAAAAAA

#11 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Yes you are. And you meant to say "Baaaaa."

Many historians and political scholars argue that MAGA fits the core pattern of fascism. They don't mean a carbon copy of 1930s Europe; they mean a distinctly American version of the same political dynamic. Fascism, on this view, is less a fixed doctrine than a style of politics. It is obsessed with national decline and humiliation. It builds a cult around a strongman who alone can restore greatness. It treats internal enemies as threats to the nation's purity. And it is willing to discard democratic limits and tolerate political violence to hold power. Critics argue MAGA shows every one of these traits. They point to its founding promise to "make America great again," the refusal to accept the 2020 election, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and rhetoric calling political opponents "vermin" and "the enemy within."

Myth of decline and rebirth: It casts America as fallen and degraded, then promises a return to a mythic, glorious past.
Cult of the leader: Personal loyalty to Trump is the test of belonging, captured in "I alone can fix it."
Scapegoating outsiders: Immigrants are described as invaders "poisoning the blood" of the country.
Opponents as enemies: Rivals and critics are labeled "vermin" and "the enemy within," and there are calls to prosecute them.
Rejection of elections: It refused to accept the 2020 results and used fake electors and January 6 to try to overturn them.
Excusing political violence: January 6 participants were pardoned en masse and celebrated as patriots.
Attacks on independent institutions: The press is called "the enemy of the people," and courts, universities, and the civil service face sustained pressure.
Domestic use of force: Troops have been deployed into American cities over the objections of local officials.

The bullying will continue until Der Dotard is stopped by force, by which I mean members of his own party openly threatening, to Trump's face, to vote for articles of impeachment. Until then, he will set loose ICE, the FBI, DOJ and probably the IRS to hound out his perceived enemies. This will not stop, even AFTER Election Day.

All this nonsense about a golf course is only a ruse for our president to openly defy an order from a sitting federal judge. He will think he is getting away with it on the golf course matter, so why not try it with the election--after all, what force will stop him from openly stealing the election? It is not too hard to imagine Dem governors calling out their national guardsmen to protect their states, and by those guardsmen confronting the US Army on the streets of, oh, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles or Portland. And then what?

It is fair to believe that the elections will not go the way of the MAGA GOP. And then what? Will members of the US House of Representatives, some of whom will lose their re-election bids by numbers too large to result in automatic recounts, stand together and dare to NOT certify the results of the election? What sitting GOP congressmen or senators will stand in defiance of Trump and the rebellious House members working in concert with Trump, so as to brazenly defy the will of the people?

Americans MUST go to the polls and vote in person (mail-in ballots will be burned). Attempts at election theft must be met by protests to our leaders, and probably in the streets. James Madison, in Federalist 46, argued that wide-spread ownership of firearms was necessary for the populace to check a tyrant. The time for that checking may be upon us soon...

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