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"Donald Trump’s first weeks back in office have been a whirlwind of chaos and political destruction. This is by design and one of the central features of the “shock and awe” strategy that Trump and his allies have been planning for years, as detailed in Project 2025 and Agenda 47, to undermine American democracy and replace it with a form of autocracy if not outright authoritarianism. This strategy is being rapidly enacted through such actions as the almost 100 executive orders that include voiding the 14th Amendment, declaring a national emergency for Trump’s mass deportation plan, gutting the Department of Justice, seemingly as part of a plan to get revenge on his personal 'enemies,' firing inspectors generals en masse, reversing 60 years of progress in civil and human rights and freezing federal loans and grants.
The Democrats, mainstream news media and the American public have been left flummoxed, confused and overwhelmed . . ."
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/03/americans-were-sleep-marched-into-fascism-signs-of-creeping-authoritarianism-we-cant-miss-again/
