He started that process right near the end. A plan to push political appointments and eliminate employee protections way down deep into the bureaucracy. To make almost everything within the executive branch a job where you could be fired and replaced for personal political views. Not just oranization leadership, but the entire staff of agencies. Turn entire agencies into patronage positions.
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And his people are preparing for round two.
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Yeah, the white supremacist idea of “race war” and white supremacist (Republican) notions of “civil war” have a lot of overlap, and are premised on the same sort of thinking (and wildly overestimating how mainstream their beliefs are). The Trumper seem to have accidentally hit upon a way of forcing the issue, except that because of their beliefs, they apparently were expecting that only a small disgruntled minority would oppose them (and be crushed).
Yeah, their notion of what the “trigger” is going to be is various crimes, including murder. How wrong they are about what they think will happen as a result is almost irrelevant.
Hell, he started it before he even got into office - remember how Trump had orders to get rid of the heads of the various federal agencies the second he took office. Including the national guard, which meant the guy overseeing security for the inauguration got replaced during the inauguration. Trump immediately started greater purges of the secret service, homeland security, the FBI, instituted loyalty requirements… only towards the end he realized he hadn’t gone far enough to achieve his goals.
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Well yeah… my point. They do think they’re the silent majority, and are trying to secure power prior to this becoming a minority-majority country. They believe that POC are going to do unto others what has been done to them in this country.
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And of course that would make their holding on to power in perpetuity even more important to them, because the possiblity of having those tables turned would be horrifying.
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I just find a certain dark humor in the irony that they think it’d be really easy to start a civil war, yet when they were plausibly engineering one, they didn’t think they’d actually get one as a result…
IIRC the same kind of fear helped to sustain apartheid in South Africa.
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Yeah, things suddenly became real and most of them just weren’t ready for that. I am reminded of the “They maced me!” woman who seemed shocked that she just might suffer consequences for attempting to stage “a revolution.”
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… teddy bears and heart shaped balloons?
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