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By Bess Levin
Nikki Haley is absent, Mitch McConnell has endorsed her, and the United States is now one general election away from the very genuine prospect of Donald Trump being re-elected president, in November 2024. If you were to go back in time and tell this news to someone, say, on January 7, 2021, they’d probably tell you that it’s “too soon” for such a joke. And when you told them you weren’t kidding, they’d say, “I’m not going to fall for it. “If you promised you were serious, they’d say, “Okay, swear on your children’s lives,” thinking you’d break up. And when you swore on your children’s lives, they would ask you, with a face of fury and excessive despair in your voice, if you were talking about an unrelated Donald Trump, one who had the excessive misfortune of being a double of the guy who had incited an insurrection the day before. . . Because the concept that this guy would one day be president again is not possible.
Sadly, we’re talking about this Donald Trump, the Donald Trump who rocked a crowd at the U. S. Capitol because he couldn’t admit that he lost to Joe Biden in 2020. The Donald Trump who was ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars to E. Jean Carroll in a civil lawsuit for sexually abusing her and then defaming her after that. The Donald Trump who has been indicted four times on 91 counts, with charges ranging from obstruction of justice to conspiracy to defraud the United States. * The Donald Trump whose first four years in the workplace traumatized others around the world, adding four more years, has so far been by no means limited to Trump:
Of course, a second Trump term would simply be a repeat of the first: it would be much worse. And we know it because Trump and his allies told us so. What do they have in store for us? Here’s what Team Trump has openly planned, advised, and promised so far:
Trump literally promised to “carry out the largest internal deportation operation in American history. “This month, he said his administration would order mass evictions from day one, adding ominously that they would “start with those,” leading others to wonder who. (During his first term, Trump not only cracked down on others who crossed the border illegally, but he also cracked down particularly on legal immigration. )
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In addition to mass deportations, Trump allegedly intends to “intensify ideological control of other people seeking to enter the country legally,” “send the Coast Guard and Navy to implement a blockade in the waters off the United States and Latin America,” and expand the “Muslim ban” to “prevent more people from certain countries from entering the U. S. “U. S. ” Speaking to Axios last August, Trump adviser Stephen Miller, architect of one of the Trump administration’s toughest policies, said, “For those who are passionate about securing our immigration system. . . the first hundred days of the Trump administration will be a natural bliss – followed by four more years of the most impactful action imaginable. Translating Miller’s language, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council told Axios that this means Trump will most likely “rush other people through the system, stripping them of their due process protections, getting rid of all access to legal services, and turning this into a caucus. ” In-line ejection machine.
Unfortunately, for those who think the federal government shouldn’t embark on what is a kidnapping, Trump has refused to rule out the option of reinstating family separation. During his first term, thousands of young people were separated from their parents and held in detention centres without any proper procedure to reunite them; Last year, the Department of Homeland Security said about 1,000 young people separated at the border years ago had yet to be reunited with their parents.
Because he’s seen how poorly vocal antiabortion Republicans have fared in recent elections, Trump likes to pretend he is a moderate when it comes to reproductive rights. Of course, this is not at all the case. For starters, this is the man who pledged to appoint anti-Roe judges to the Supreme Court, did exactly that, and then bragged about killing the national right to an abortion. Now, he’s putting it out there that he’s not opposed to the federal ban:
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And these are just the things Trump has publicly admitted to. In “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”—a document that can be read as a guide to Trump’s second term—The Heritage Foundation writes:
. . . the Dobbs resolution [overturning Roe v. Wade] is just the beginning. Conservatives in the state and in Washington, along with those in the next conservative administration, deserve to do everything in their power to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America. In particular, the next conservative president should work with Congress to enact the most powerful physical protections for the unborn that Congress will implement while deploying existing federal forces to protect innocent lives and vigorously enforce legal prohibitions on federal investment in abortion.
The document also states that the next directorate will instruct the Department of Health and Human Services to “explicitly refuse. . . the concept that abortion is health care” and ensuring that the Task Force on Access to Reproductive Health Care, instituted by Biden’s leadership, is replaced through “a pro-life task force. “
The Trump campaign has previously insisted that the Heritage Foundation and other groups do not “speak for President Trump or his campaign.” But it’s not hard to imagine Trump implementing its recommendations given (1) this is a person who has falsely and ridiculously claimed that Roe allowed doctors to murder babies, and (2) everything he’s already done to restrict abortion!
As The Guardian notes, “Donald Trump and his advisers have made crusader promises to eliminate major environmental regulations and breathe life into the planet-warming fossil fuel sector,” plans that come with “the systemic dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal firm charged with protecting the environment. More strength to tackle the climate emergency and environmental justice. At a rally in January, the former president called renewable power a “fraudulent business” and pledged to “drill, baby, drill. “He said that from “day one” Joe Biden’s “crazy EV mandate” would end. Myron Ebell, who led the EPA’s transition team during Trump’s first term, promised that “Trump will undo everything [Joe] Biden has done, act faster and happen more than before. He will move much more temporarily to impose his agfinisha. “
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In the section on the EPA in “Mandate for Leadership,” Mandy Gunasekara, who served as Trump’s EPA chief of staff, proposes that the new administration shutter the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance and allow individual program offices to do their own enforcement, which she told The Guardian would ease the “unnecessary tension between the regulator and the regulated.” Of course, what that really means is that team Trump wants to give their private industry polluting pals a free pass, at the expensive of people who said pollution will kill. “When I think about the EPA … getting cozy with industry, it horrifies me because I think about how much death there will be as a byproduct,” Maria Lopez-Nunez, deputy director the Ironbound Community Corporation, a grassroots environmental organization, told The Guardian.
“A Trump comeback would be, in a word, horrible,” Andrew Rosenberg, former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the outlet. “That would also be incredibly stupid. This would run contrary to the progress made over decades to protect public health and safety. There is no other logic for this than to destroy everything. The other people around him probably don’t realize that their lives are at stake either. ”
At a rally in February, Trump boasted that he “felt a lot of tension about guns” and in the face of that tension – and the numerous mass shootings – “we did nothing. ” inaction in a second term, saying that “no one would put a finger on his guns” and that “his Second Amendment will be safe with me as president. “
In a speech last month, Trump said publicly that a NATO “great nation” once asked him if he would protect himself from an attack via Russia, even if he hadn’t paid his “fair share” in defense. To which Trump responded, he responded, “I said, ‘You didn’t pay?Are you a criminal?’ He said, ‘yes, let’s just say it happened. ‘No, I wouldn’t. In fact, it would inspire them to do whatever they wanted. You have to pay. You have to pay your bills. (As a reminder, there is no consistent amount that NATO members must spend on defense, and no one owes the U. S. any money, despite Trump’s claims. )
Shortly before the last presidential election, Trump signed an executive order known as Schedule F, allowing his administration to gut employment protections for thousands of career federal employees whose jobs—which include things like ensuring food and drugs are safe—are not supposed to be subject to the whims of whomever is inhabiting the White House at any given the time. Stripped of such protections, the move would have given Trump the power to fire whoever he wanted, and replace them with individuals whose chief qualifications were complete and utter devotion to him. Trump, of course, was not able to see the plan through, and Biden swiftly canceled the executive order. But, with a potential second term coming, Trump and his allies have made it clearer than ever that they would pick up exactly where they left off.
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Two years ago, Axios reported that Trump-aligned conservative teams had worked hard to vet potential Trump management employees, and that resources close to the former president “anticipate they will need help” to do alternative jobs on an unprecedented scale, perhaps as many as 10,000. group of painters, to give them the ability to temporarily update “obstructionist” government officials with other people committed to Trump and his “America First” agenda. In June, make it clear that it’s about retaliation and not about who is the most productive user. For the job, Trump said in a speech in Michigan: “With you on my side, we will defeat the deep state. We will drive the warmongers out of our government. We will scare away the globalists. We will expel the communists, the Marxists and the fascists, and we will get rid of the sick political elegance that hates our country. . . We will rid America of these evil people once and for all.
As conservative Geoffrey Kabaservice, a conservative who wrote the e-book Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party, told Politico, Exhibit F is “a way to gut the government and update it with Trump’s cronies. “
Trump has vowed to pardon a “large portion” of those convicted of federal crimes following their involvement in the attack on the U. S. Capitol, and that many will get an “apology. “As a quick reminder, the attack on the Capitol left several people dead and about 140 law enforcement officers injured as a result of attacks with bats, flagpoles, stun guns, and pepper spray.
Trump said he was looking to get rid of the Department of Education and let states “manage our children’s schooling. ” Naturally, he has pledged to cut federal investment in schools that teach critical race theory or what he calls “transgender madness. ” He also said that he would bring back his “Commission of 1776”, which notably lacked real pro historians, to announce a “patriotic” program. “What Trump is seeking to resurrect is anything that has been absolutely debunked through the pro-ancient network in an absolutely apolitical context,” James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, told the Washington Post. “There are many ways to put into practice what happens when the teaching of history is undermined in its integrity in the interests of a political party. “
Oh, and he wants parents to fire principals.
Trump has threatened to punish doctors and hospitals that provide physical care to minors, and said he would ask Congress to pass a national law banning the practice in “all 50 states. ” (“I will repeal all of Biden’s policies that sell chemical castration and female genital mutilation to our young people and ask Congress to send me a bill banning child genital mutilation in all 50 states,” he told CPAC last year) . He also said he would do it. Sign a federal law that will recognize only two genders and Ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports.
Trump hasn’t said it openly, but we can probably expect, with almost certainty, that if he wins the election, he will disappear from the federal tariffs that oppose him for his manipulation of classified documents and his subversion of the 2020 election. (Or, depending on progress, try to forgive yourself. ) But not everyone will be so lucky. Trump pledged to “appoint a genuine special ‘prosecutor’ to prosecute the most corrupt president in U. S. history, Joe Biden, all of Biden’s crime. family and all other actors involved in the destruction of our elections, our borders, and our country. A few months later, he asked, “If you’re president again, are you going to lock other people up?”He replied, “The answer is that you don’t have a selection because they’re doing this to us. “
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