Dissident Politics: Bits: Thoughts on the radical right; The radical right's Project 2025

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Bits: Thoughts on the radical right; The radical right's Project 2025

For a while, the ARRRP (authoritarian radical right Republican Party) has been open about its hostility to democracy and civil liberties. When the MSM, pundits and others call the ARRRP conservative, I often try to point out (when I can) that America's political right isn't conservative any more. It has become radical, corrupt and authoritarian. It usually rejects and denies inconvenient fact, true truth and sound reasoning. It is clearly opposed to democracy, the rule of law, and civil liberties. That the MSM continues to refer to the ARRRP as conservative constitutes a major failing.

At time passes, I see a slow trickle of others starting to see what I have been seeing since some time in 2017. This change in mindset by the radical right is not new, but in the past it was always denied or downplayed into something allegedly benign and pro-democracy. In the last year or two, the denials from ARRRP propagandists and elites are weakening in view of how obviously false denying this truth is. We know what the ARRRP degenerated into and the radical right knows we know it. More people are starting to say that Emperor is butt naked. So instead of calling the US a democracy, the radical right movement is starting to say the US is a constitutional republic or something else so that the concept of voting can be neutered and killed by the authoritarians who want to establish a corrupt tyranny of some sort.

This video at ~17:48 - 20:07 makes the same argument I am making, the ARRRP is not democratic or conservative. It is radical, authoritarian and anti-democratic.

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America's radical right is locked onto Trump winning the election in 2024 and then sending in hoards of authoritarian extremists to dismantle the federal government and turn it into a vast corruption machine to serve elites and their interests. Project 2025 is right out in the open. Salon writes:

“Dark” right-wing network recruits MAGA “army” to replace
50K federal workers Trump plans to purge

“Project 2025 is extremists' newest plan to set fire to our democracy,” watchdog group warns

A network of conservative groups is gearing up for the potential reelection of Donald Trump, actively enlisting an "army" of Americans to come to Washington with a mission to disassemble the federal government and substitute it with a vision that aligns more closely with their own beliefs and ideas, according to The Associated Press.

Organized by the Heritage Foundation, the sweeping new initiative called Project 2025, offers a policy agenda, transition plan, a playbook for the first 180 days and a personnel database for the next GOP president to access from the very beginning to take control, reform, and eliminate what Republicans criticize as the "deep state" bureaucracy. Their plan includes the possibility of firing as many as 50,000 federal employees.

Democracy experts view Project 2025 as an authoritarian attempt to seize power by filling the federal government, including the Department of Justice and the FBI, with unwavering Trump supporters, which could potentially erode the country's system of checks and balances.

“The irony of course is that in the name of 'draining the swamp', it creates opportunities to make the federal government actually quite corrupt and turn the country into a more authoritarian kind of government,” Matt Dallek, a professor at George Washington's Graduate School of Political Management, who studies the American right, told Salon.

Salon asserts incorrectly that unwavering Trump supporters, which could potentially erode the country's system of checks and balances. Unwavering Trump supporters in the federal government absolutely will erode the country's system of checks and balances. We have already see the massive damage that four years of Trump in office caused. There is no reason whatsoever to think the next four will not be a lot worse.

As usual, the mainstream media continues to completely fail to see the massive authoritarian threat in front of its eyes.

This is just another garden variety warning from Germaine about what America's deeply corrupt, radical right authoritarians intend to do once they get back in power.

Qs: How can the MSM still be so shockingly blind? Is it stupidity? Ignorance? Sympathy for corrupt authoritarianism?, Subversion by corporate ownership and the profit motive? Some combination of all of that? Or, is this nothing to be concerned about because it's just a mole hill?