“Something dark might be coming.”
Democrats warned at this time last year what would happen if Donald Trump retook the White House and implemented Project 2025. Someone must be keeping a checklist of how many of its policies have been implemented so far. But I won’t waste time looking for it. I’m living it.
Stocking federal law enforcement agencies with Trump true believers was part of that plan. It’s what his lackeys would need to turn the Department of Justice into a tool for suppressing dissent and making Trump president for life. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, they are positioned and making ready to crush dissent.
The Reichstag fire is not the right analogy for MAGA’s response to Kirk’s death. Perhaps Horst Wessel’s elevation to martyr is. Trump’s disciples bristle at comparisons to 1920s and 1930s Germany. Just not enough to reconsider taking actions that evoke them.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D) of Connecticut sent up a warning flare on Twitter Sunday afternoon about what may be on the way. “Pay attention,” Murphy warns. “Something dark might be coming.”
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Greg Sargent last week addressed (obliquely) the lack of transparency into Trump Department of Justice planning:
We need whistleblowers right now more than ever: If the FBI gets enlisted in this threatened campaign of state retribution—which seems likely, given that Patel vowed exactly this before Trump won—we need to know what sort of planning for this is taking place on the inside. And now that Trump has declared right-wing extremist targeting of the left fully justified, we also need to know if the FBI is further turning a blind eye to far-right paramilitary mobilizations.
Trump looks forward to presiding over the nation’s 250-year anniversary. But members of Trump’s inner circle exist in time not as inheritors of the democratic legacy of Jefferson and Madison. Their ideas about what is best in life long predate the spirit of the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, or of Christianity, no matter their Jesus-y pretensions.
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