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Kid Berwyn

(20,672 posts)
17. Precise analysis, yours. Yet still, they NAZI.
Sun May 11, 2025, 01:13 PM
May 11

Leave no white millionaire behind.





Project 2025 and Mein Kampf: A troubling parallel

by David M. Crane
The Mountaineer, August 7, 2024

In analyzing the Republican Project 2025 and Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, we observe unsettling similarities that merit close scrutiny.

Each work outlines a vision for their respective nations that veers alarmingly toward authoritarianism, threatening the democratic fabric of the Weimar Republic and the United States.

Though Trump has “disavowed” the project, his statements carry little weight due to his duplicitous approach to politics. He cannot be trusted.

Authoritarian vision

Mein Kampf is infamous for its detailed blueprint of an authoritarian regime. Hitler’s vision was rooted in absolute power, racial purity, and the dismantling of democratic institutions.

Project 2025, though not overtly espousing the same extreme ideologies, reveals a trajectory toward centralized power and erosion of democratic checks and balances. This plan, influenced heavily by Trump’s agenda, proposes sweeping changes that could undermine the principles of American democracy.

Disdain for democratic institutions

Hitler’s disdain for the Weimar Republic’s democratic institutions is well-documented. He viewed democracy as weak and inefficient, advocating for a totalitarian state.

Similarly, Project 2025 reveals a deep skepticism toward American democratic institutions. The plan includes proposals to weaken the judiciary, restrict the press, and limit the powers of Congress —actions that mirror Hitler’s efforts to neutralize any opposition to his rule.

Nationalism, populism

Both Mein Kampf and Project 2025 are steeped in nationalism and populism. Hitler’s book is a call to revive German pride and purity, positioning Aryans as the master race.

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https://www.themountaineer.com/opinion/columns/project-2025-and-mein-kampf-a-troubling-parallel/article_0ce228de-529e-11ef-b9d4-eb602c20ea68.html



We had more than a year to prepare for the Anschluss, and yet nothing was done -- nor even tried.



The Heritage Foundation Plan to Help Trump End Democracy in America

Unequal Justice: Trump 2024 and the Blueprint to End American Democracy


The far right Heritage Foundation created a platform for Trump that plots an authoritarian take-over of the country.

by BILL BLUM
The Progressive, Jul 27, 2023

Donald Trump nearly destroyed American democracy in his first term in office. If he is reelected, he plans to try to finish the job. This isn’t a matter of speculation; it’s a virtual certainty.

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One of the project’s more disturbing aims is to bring all federal agencies under direct presidential control, ending the operational independence not only of the Department of Justice and the FBI, but also the Federal Reserve, which oversees the banking industry and regulates interest rates; the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which oversees television, radio, and the Internet; and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which enforces antitrust and consumer protection laws.

“What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of independence and seize them,” Russell Vought told The New York Times in an interview for a lengthy article published earlier this month on Trump’s plans for a second term. Vought ran the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump White House, and currently serves as the president of the Center for Renewing America, one of sixty-five ultra-right organizations that have come together to form Project 2025’s advisory board. (Others include the American Family Project, Hillsdale College, Liberty University, Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America, America First Legal, the Claremont Institute, Moms for Liberty, Freedom Works, the James Madison Institute, and ALEC.)

“The President’s plan should be to fundamentally reorient the federal government in a way that hasn’t been done since F.D.R.’s New Deal,” John McEntee, another former Trump White House staffer, also told the Times. “Our current executive branch,” McEntee continued, “was conceived of by liberals for the purpose of promulgating liberal policies. There is no way to make the existing structure function in a conservative manner. It’s not enough to get the personnel right. What’s necessary is a complete system overhaul.” McEntee joined Project 2025 in May as a senior advisor, working on the initiative’s “personnel” pillar.

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Dismantling the New Deal-era regulatory framework of the administrative state, as McEntee advocates, has long been a goal of the radical right. The right has also long advocated a bloated view of presidential power known as the “unitary executive theory.” The doctrine was popularized in the early 1980s by Ed Meese, who served as counselor to the President in Reagan’s first term, and as attorney general in his second term, before assuming a full-time post with the Heritage Foundation in 1988. Bill Barr, Trump’s last Senate-confirmed Attorney General, is another prominent proponent of the theory.

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https://progressive.org/latest/trump-2024-and-the-blueprint-blum-20230726/



Poor Greenland and Denmark -- our Allies -- and We the People of the United States of America -- most of whom are MAGA's enemies.

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