My now deceased friend said the same thing about Nazi Germany:
Shouan Zhoobin Riahi
@abogadojuanito
One thing that my parents, who lived through the collapse of the Shah's regime, always told me is that they were surprised with the speed and ferocity with which it happened. Things that seemed impossible one day were simply happening the next.
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Wake up, America. Project 2025 is not a 5 year plan, or even a one year plan. It is a 180 day plan. Very, very quickly the administrative state as we have come to know it will be deconstructed, and things that are unthinkable now will be happening on a daily basis under the auspices of a corrupt president and with the blessings of a corrupt Supreme Court and a corrupt Congress should Republicans keep the House and take back the Senate:
The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025
How an authoritarian president will dismantle our democracy and what we can do to protect it
This report addresses the following topics on which he has made explicit promises and about which his allies have developed specific plans for federal government action:
Pardons to License Lawbreaking: During Trump's first term, he discovered that he could leverage the pardon power to induce witnesses against him into silence. In a second term, he has indicated he would further abuse pardons to incite political violence, incentivize lawbreaking for his benefit, and render himself above the law.
Directing Investigations Against Critics and Rivals: Retribution is the dominant theme of Trump's 2024 campaign, and his allies are making plans to eliminate the Department of Justice's traditional prosecutorial independence to give Trump greater personal control to direct law enforcement against his perceived opponents and insulate himself from accountability.
Regulatory Retaliation: In addition to steering prosecutorial discretion via the Department of Justice, Trump has vowed to consolidate and wield federal regulatory power to reward political loyalty and punish his critics, particularly those associated with the media. There are numerous reports of this regulatory retaliation happening during Trump's first term, and plans for a second include ways of removing those obstacles that limited opportunities for more.
Federal Law Enforcement Overreach: Trump's declaration that immigration is "poisoning the blood of our country" is a grim foreshadowing of how he will invoke the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime provision dating back to 1798. Once Trump has that power, he has also expressed his will to expand the footprint of federal law enforcement to police cities and shut down lawful protests.
Domestic Deployment of the Military: A central hallmark of American democracy is that the U.S. military not be used against American citizens. But Trump plans to abuse the Insurrection Act to order military force to quash dissent and target vulnerable communities.
www.authoritarianplaybook2025.org
If you don't see how recent Supreme Court rulings have been paving the way for a second Trump presidency to carry out Project 2025, then you haven't been paying attention.
This is the country we thought we lived in, but we were being played by Republicans for years [video at link]:
Republican Voters Against Trump
@AccountableGOP
Chief Justice John Roberts at his confirmation hearing: "No one is above the law under our system and that includes the president. The president is fully bound by the law." (Sept. 2005)
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