Highlights: Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.
In private, Trump has told advisers and friends in recent months that he wants the Justice Department to investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office, including his former chief of staff, John Kelly, and former attorney general William P. Barr, as well as his ex-attorney Ty Cobb and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley, according to people who have talked to him, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Trump has also talked of prosecuting officials at the FBI and Justice Department, a person familiar with the matter said.
I would like to believe voters realize how fucked everyone is if he ever gets power again. I’d like to.
Putin will probably go for another country after Ukraine and Trump will do nothing. Meanwhile he will be further dismantling the government until we basically have an unfettered oligarchy to a degree that makes Russia look like a beacon of democracy and honesty.
Then the real persecution of minorities begins.
Voting won’t be enough. We also need to be donating time or money to important campaigns and to efforts to get people to the polls.