Context
Trump and MAGA elites with their authoritarian, kleptocratic Project 2025 blueprint have been power long enough to start assessing what they are delivering. Not surprisingly, their product is broken promises for us and the public interest and a vast cornucopia of benefits for the rich and powerful people and allied business interests. The broken promises were necessary to put MAGA’s wealth and power movement in power, so there’s no surprise in what has been delivered. The cornucopia of benefits to the rich and powerful include gutted protections and loss of vast power for consumers, workers and the environment, with vast wealth and power gains for allied elite MAGA authoritarians and kleptocrats.
Of course, we’re not yet in a full blown kleptocratic dictatorship-oligarchy-Christian nationalist theocracy. But those are the main goals that Trump and MAGA elites are clearly working to attain in their ruthless quest for more wealth and power. The elite MAGA mindset is elitist, kleptocratic, and authoritarian. Most of the MAGA rank and file mindset is, more or less, the opposite of that. With their relentless demagoguery, lies, slanders, crackpottery, bigotry and irrational emotional manipulation, MAGA elites have successfully deceived, manipulated and betrayed most of the rank and file.
Some of what has been delivered
A NYT opinion piece, Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts, lays out some of what he and MAGA elites have delivered. This only scratches the surface. However, is it exemplary of MAGA’s overall authoritarian-kleptocrat wealth and power project. These are some of the delivered goods:
Q: Can widespread false beliefs among the MAGA rank and file about what they falsely believe they support vs what they rationally support a belief that their ignorance grounded in MAGA deceit constitutes an existential threat to secular democracy, the even-handed rule of law and civil liberties that MAGA elites target for elimination or major scaling back?
Info sources:
Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, with U.S. Decline “Unprecedented”
Project 2025 — (the blueprint includes dedicated chapters on gutting or neutering the EPA, Labor Department, Treasury, CFPB, FTC, SEC, FCC, and Federal Election Commission, and reorienting their missions from service to the public interest to service to elite people and allied special interests)
The People’s Guide to Project 2025 — What we discovered was a systemic, ruthless plan to undermine the quality of life of millions of Americans, remove critical protections and dismantle programs for communities across the nation, and prioritize special interests and ideological extremism over people. From attacking overtime pay, student loans, and reproductive rights, to allowing more discrimination, pollution, and price gouging, those behind Project 2025 are preparing to go to incredible lengths to create a country only for some, not for all of us.
Strategic anti-corruption communications: Guidance for behavior change interventions
Congressional Budget Office: Distributional Effects of Public Law 119-21 — The changes in resources will not be evenly distributed among households. The agency estimates that, in general, resources will decrease for households toward the bottom of the income distribution, whereas resources will increase for households in the middle and toward the top of the income distribution.
How Politicized Prosecutions Undermine the Rule of Law — The U.S. Department of Justice is the American people’s law firm. Traditionally independent from the political motivations of any given administration, the Justice Department is supposed to defend the rule of law without prejudice and protect the rights of all Americans. It is not the president’s personal law firm and should not be used for politicized prosecutions. But since starting his second term in office, President Trump has aimed his animus at political opponents through the Justice Department by threatening arrests, ordering unwarranted investigations and prosecutions, and jeopardizing military retirements.
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