Bits: Dictatorship; Incitement of violence; More incitement

It seems that the intent and meaning of the radical right's Project 2025 is starting to sink in. Good, hope it's not too late. Salon writes:

Trump's plans to become a dictator — denial will not save you

Project 2025 is a strategy that has been developed by right-wing think tanks

Donald Trump is a dictator in waiting. Like other dictators, he is threatening to put his "enemies" in prison – and to do even worse things to them. These are not idle threats or empty acts of ideation: Donald Trump is a violent man who is a proven enemy of democracy and freedom.

These threats of violence against his enemies are part of a much larger pattern of violent and dangerous behavior that is only growing worse as he faces criminal trials and the possibility of going to prison for hundreds of years.

In the most recent example, Donald Trump told Glenn Beck during an interview last week that he is going to put President Biden and other "enemies" in prison when he takes by the White House in 2025.

In a Sunday evening post on his Truth Social disinformation social media platform, Trump was even more explicit with his threats of violence and harm, threatening that he would treat Biden and the other "enemies" like they do in "banana republics":

The Crooked Joe Biden Campaign has thrown so many Indictments and lawsuits against me that Republicans are already thinking about what we are going to do to Biden and the Communists when it's our turn. They have started a whole new Banana Republic way of thinking about political campaigns. So cheap and dirty, but that's where America is right now. Be careful what you wish for!

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The Hill reports about an example of the radical right normalizing political violence:

Huckabee: 2024 will be last election ‘decided by ballots rather 

than bullets’ if Trump loses over legal cases

In the latest episode of his show on TBN, Huckabee argued the legal woes now facing Trump are part of a politically motivated scheme from the Biden administration, an argument touted by many in the former president’s orbit.

'Nuff said.

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An opinion piece in The Hill reports about America's radical right effort to foment and normalize political violence:

Republicans just can’t stop calling for civil war

Ask a MAGA Republican what will happen if former President Donald Trump is convicted in any of his four criminal trials and the answer is almost always the same: civil war.

That answer holds true whether you speak to rank-and-file Republican voters, local elected officials or even former national GOP leaders. It’s also an indication that the right-wing politics of grievance is spiraling dangerously out of control.

Yeah, radical right faux grievance is dangerously out of control.