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This is clearly a deliberate shock and awe campaign by Trump and his acolytes to cause as much chaos and damage as possible before they encounter resistance. An
by arunabha 2y ago
This is clearly a deliberate shock and awe campaign by Trump and his acolytes to cause as much chaos and damage as possible before they encounter resistance. Another objective is to likely bring a case about the constitutionality of the Impoundment act in front of a conservative supreme court.
What's sickening is that the norms might be permanently changed even if Trump and Elon are pushed back. The next president with an authoritarian bent will have plenty of precedent to justify similar behaviour.
- karmakurtisaani 2y agoIf they want to follow the usual play book, the next steps would be: - wait for the mass protests, use them as an excuse to strengthen the police and/or roll out the nazi boys to attack opposition - create a fake terrorist attack to justify full blown police state - flood the media with conspiracies and lies so that no one can tel the truth anymore - create and fund a controlled opposition Some of these worked for Hitler, others for Putin. I hope it doesn't go to this in the US, but the pace of things suggests otherwise.