I declare that some of these ideas are not 1000% me - I have read , and thought about it ,,, and here is what I think would happen. I credit CITY Watch.... Yes - its a long read - but you should know the signs and the Rhetoric that is being tossed around... so that you will know what is happening beforehand... and may be just maybe stop it from happening....
IF - and as I have stated - god forbid - that it happens.... The 2nd Trump term would be the end of Democracy as we know it - and much of this they, the MAGAS have told us what they will do ...
Domestically - Trump would use the MAGA group to pull essentially everything he can under his power -
Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies—like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses—under direct presidential control.
How would this play out? The FCC has power over the internet, as well as all broadcast media in America; it’s how the Trump administration killed net neutrality and gave the giant internet service providers (ISPs) the legal right to track everything you do and say on the web right down to the last keystroke of your posts and your every email.
Thus, President Trump could mandate that any media critical of him—including online media like Daily Kos, Raw Story, or Common Dreams—must be heavily “regulated,” just like in Russia and Hungary. And he could do this in the first weeks of his presidency, to tamp down the ability to organize protests around his other fascist policies.
Taking over the Federal Trade Commission would allow him to do all kinds of favors for his CEO and billionaire backers, bringing industry behind his fascism, just as happened in the early years of Nazi Germany. This from CITY Watch....
and it continues,,,,, In addition, Trump has already proclaimed his intention to turn the FBI, IRS, and DOJ into weapons against his political enemies. Just like Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán.
Lest you think Trump doesn’t have plans to take on the “fake news” media and “liberals” he regularly lambasts, consider what he reposted on his Nazi-infested social media site just three days ago:
If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.
Plus take the example that after he said this shit - NOT ONE - elected Republican called out this Fascist rhetoric for what it is tells you all you need to know - that the GOP is so scared f Trump that they dare not oppose his ... They will not and do not stand up to him now - there is no way they do it after his is the POTUS - they are too frightened of losing his base voters and there-by their jobs !!
With few exceptions, they are systematically destroying American democracy with the clear objective of replacing it with strongman authoritarianism, a new and American version of what Benito Mussolini called fascism.
Right now they’re moving gradually:
— Infiltrating police departments and the enlisted ranks of the military
— Taking over school boards and local boards of elections
— Compiling lists of authoritarians who could serve in the next Republican administration and which agencies they intend to purge
— Firing principals and teachers who defend multiracial, multicultural democracy while banning books that contain such “dangerous” ideas
— Demonizing "queer" people and outlawing drag shows
— Working with right-wing media and Fox “News” to completely rewrite the history of January 6th
— Gerrymandering states and purging voter rolls so regardless of who tries to vote, Republicans control the levers of power
— Changing election laws so they can both make it harder for city-dwellers to vote and so GOP officials can ignore and even change the outcomes of elections they don’t like
— Building media structures that will support the authoritarian takeover when it happens
— Organizing armed paramilitary militias, with back-channel connections to local police
— Creating legal organizations to sanitize and rationalize ending messy democracy
— Radicalizing average Americans through social media and an ever-growing network of subsidized hard-right radio shows and podcasts
— Spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories about Democrats and Jews using the dog whistle of “George Soros”
— Firebombing Texas Democratic Party’s Austin headquarters and threatening them that if they don’t stop trying to get Democrats elected worse will come
We’ve seen this movie before.
It was “the other 9/11.” Everything seemed normal until Gen. Augusto Pinochet declared he was taking over the government of Chile on September 11, 1973.
YUP - Pinochet - Drove up to their "White House" declared himself the President. Law enforcement and the Military were coerced by him already- so they not only did not object - they helped him. and vey shortly after that they put a gun to his head and ended his presidency - Pinochet effectively ended Democracy in Chile.
Trump had previously proclaimed his desire to change the nation’s libel and slander laws so he could sue or imprison his political opponents and those in the media who opposed him; if he had succeeded on January 6th, that would have happened by now, and people like me (and maybe you) would be in jail.
Echoing one of Pinochet’s first 1973 laws, a Republican state legislator in Florida proposed legislation requiring bloggers and writers to register with the state if they intend to criticize any elected official; the next Republican president will almost certainly put similar laws into place and quickly.
Trump had previously promised his violent partisans that he’d pardon them and pick up their legal fees; if he or another MAGA Republican takes the White House in 2024, within months hundreds of Kyle Rittenhouses will be “defending themselves” against Black people, “Antifa,” and “commie liberals” without consequence.
The Democratic Party will be labeled aggressors and subversives by right-wing media and the administration; its ranks will melt away as quickly as the union-aligned parties did in Italy and Germany in the 1930s or the Allende democrats did in Chile in 1973.
First abortion will be criminalized nationwide, then birth control, then women in business and politics will find themselves under constant attack in the media and the workplace. White male dominance will reattain the status it had in 1972 when women couldn’t legally get an abortion, buy a house, sign contracts, or even get a credit card without the signature of a father or husband.
Newsrooms across the country will be purged of liberals and running editorials in support of the “new patriotism” proclaimed by the GOP; the hedge funds headed up by right-wing billionaires—who today own over half of all the nation’s newspapers—will be snapping up the rest of the nation’s media like Orbán’s oligarch buddies did in Hungary and Putin’s friends did in Russia.
Every time these sorts of overthrows happen, the nation’s people are shocked and surprised. They had no idea how far things had gone. It even happened that way with the American Revolution and the Civil War.
I fear that it will be said of these days leading up to the Election - that "we never thought it could happen here" and that we are surprised how quickly that it occurred.
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