REVEALED: Trump’s Plan To Become Dictator. His Mein Kampf Is Called Project 2025

It’s no secret how much Donald Trump admires dictators and strongmen. He oozes awe in their direction. China’s Xi is a genius, to hear Trump tell it, Kim Jong Un rules with an iron fist, an admirable trait, and Vladimir, oh my heavens, Vladimir, why he is the ne plus ultra of sadistic dictator thugs. Trump gets all hot and bothered when thinking of Vladimir. When Putin came to power in Russia in 1999, he did not become a dictator overnight. Oh, no. It took him a while. He had to crush the independent media, woo the oligarch class, and then to fine tune it all, he began to destroy his political opponents through multiple assassinations and imprisonments.

If you listen to Trump, you hear the pre-echoes of how he intends to do the very same thing here. The media is the “enemy of the people” the RINOs and other establishment figures are his foes, unless they choose to become his allies, which many do because they’re terrified of him, and all the rest of his revenge parlance is aimed at the DOJ, the FBI, whomever he perceives stands between him and his goal of autocracy. Make no mistake, Trump’s not running for president in 2024, he’s running for dictator. American Prospect:

Donald Trump is openly planning something similar, should he win the 2024 election. At The New York Times, Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage, and Maggie Haberman have a report with frank admissions from a host of Trump associates that Trump is planning a political purge of the entire federal government, in order to bend it to his will. Given Trump’s history, it’s clear that should he become president again, he will try to set up a dictatorship.

When Trump first came to power, he had little idea of how the federal government worked or even what he wanted to do with it, much less how to bend it to his will. In his book The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis recounted a scene after Trump had become the GOP nominee in 2016 when each party was setting up a transition team in case they prevailed. Chris Christie was in charge of the Republicans’ effort, and raised some money to figure out who could be nominated for what position, who’d vet their backgrounds, and so on.

Trump didn’t even know about the transition until “he read about it in the newspaper,” Lewis writes. Trump then summoned Christie to yell at him, saying something like, “You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this?” (The quote, and the next one, seem to be a paraphrase.) When Christie explained that the transition process was legally obliged and funded in part with government money, Trump responded: “Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money.” The only way Steve Bannon could convince him not to shut down the transition was by arguing that cable news pundits would take it as evidence that Trump didn’t really think he could win.

I don’t know about you, but I would give anything to hear Chris Christie confront Donald Trump with this in an onstage debate. Trump doesn’t want to debate anybody, most of all Christie, and this is exactly why. Christie knows where the skeletons are.

That kind of attitude and general lack of knowledge help explain why Trump faceplanted on so many objectives, particularly early in his presidency. He would refuse to observe even the slightest legal niceties, follow proper bureaucratic procedure, or even shut his potty mouth for five seconds, thereby immediately running into trouble in the courts.

Eventually, Trump figured out how to get what he wanted. The answer was not to conform his acts to the existing system, but to break it. By issuing hundreds of executive orders, threatening those who stood in his way, and above all installing cronies throughout the executive branch and the judiciary, he could break through the procedures and norms that had constrained previous presidents (which turned out to be a lot more feeble than many assumed). By 2020, Presidential Personnel Office head John McEntee was running a plan to install Trump stooges throughout the federal bureaucracy even over the objections of Trump’s own Cabinet members.

The article goes on to depict Comrade Trump’s “attempted putsch” on January 6. As poorly planned and incompetently executed as it was, it got out of hand quickly. You may recall how members of the Secret Service were phoning loved ones, saying they feared that they may not make it through the day alive. And certainly you recall members of the House and Senate hiding under chairs. That was a black day in our history.

And the tragic truth is, as the Prospect puts it, “Ultimately, a bare handful of Republican officials refusing to go along with Trump’s attempt to steal the election preserved American democracy.” Had Mike Pence decided to break the law, or if the officials in Georgia decided to do so, or in Arizona, we could have had a coup d’etat, plain and simple.

We dodged the bullet once. But can we prevail against Project 2025?

The Times report is characteristically stuffy about what is going on here. Yet the reporters got enough Trump cronies on the record to make the stakes abundantly clear. The plan is called Project 2025—a transition project started long in advance this time, with the explicit purpose of making the entire government beholden to Trump’s every whim. “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,” said McEntee. “What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of independence and seize them,” said Trump’s former Office of Management chief Russell T. Vought. Institutional support comes from the Heritage Foundation; its president Kevin D. Roberts said: “The notion of independent federal agencies or federal employees who don’t answer to the president violates the very foundation of our democratic republic.”

Here we have a disgraced former president who attempted a coup d’état after losing the last election, and is also facing major legal jeopardy at the federal level and from multiple states. Quite possibly, the only way to avoid going to prison for the rest of his life is to become president again—and the only way to satisfy his craving for limitless money and power, and to inflict ruthless vengeance against his enemies, is to turn the presidency into a dictatorship.

Trump won’t necessarily succeed, even if he does win the election—it is unwise for a would-be autocrat to cultivate deep unpopularity among the armed forces, just for starters—but that is what he’s determined to do.

Trump gave us a blueprint. Just like Hitler did with Mein Kampf. You can’t say he hasn’t telegraphed it, hasn’t repeated it and broadcast it day and night to his MAGA cult. He has. This is what he intends to do. Forewarned is forearmed and hopefully the electorate takes this threat seriously enough to turn out en masse in 2024 and vote this monster into oblivion — if he isn’t already a convicted felon by that time. Who would have ever thought that a huckster from Queens could topple our constitution and our way of life but that is precisely the agenda in 2024. And the GOP, having long gone to the Dark Side, is just fine with it.

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