Billionaires Unleash Plan To Impose Dictatorship, Thom Hartmann 🗽

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- ‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening,' The Guardian, Oct. 1, 2023. Ed. Argument for a ‘red Caesar’ to rule US may seem esoteric but conservative thinktank behind idea has connections to Trump.

In June, the rightwing academic Kevin Slack published a book-length polemic claiming that ideas that had emerged from what he called the radical left were now so dominant that the US republic its founders envisioned was effectively at an end. Slack, a politics professor at the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan, made conspiratorial and extreme arguments now common on the antidemocratic right, that “transgenderism, anti-white racism, censorship, cronyism … are now the policies of an entire cosmopolitan class that includes much of the entrenched bureaucracy, the military, the media, and government-sponsored corporations”. In a discussion of possible responses to this conspiracy theory, he wrote that the “New Right now often discusses a Red Caesar, by which it means a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people...https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/01/red-caesar-authoritarianism-republicans-extreme-right

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- Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" aims to reduce, reshape government if conservative wins president, WBUR, Sept. 13, 2023,
As Congress gets back to work this week, a few blocks away, the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation has been working on Project 2025. The plan aims to dramatically reshape federal agencies, reduce their independence, and give more power to the president. They are working to assemble an “army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on day one” if a conservative wins the presidency, to “deconstruct the administrative state...https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/09/13/plan-25-republican-government