(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Agenda47 and Project2025: The plans to make Trump a NeoFacist Totalitarian Dictator [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-02 This is not a drill. This is not a hoax. This is not hyperbole. This is a Four-Alarm fire for our Democracy and if Trump — or any Republican — wins in 2024, it will be literally game over for out Democracy. Chauncy De Vega in Salon put it this way. Donald Trump is a dictator in waiting. Like other dictators, he is threatening to put his "enemies" in prison – and to do even worse things to them. These are not idle threats or empty acts of ideation: Donald Trump is a violent man who is a proven enemy of democracy and freedom. These threats of violence against his enemies are part of a much larger pattern of violent and dangerous behavior that is only growing worse as he faces criminal trials and the possibility of going to prison for hundreds of years. In the most recent example, Donald Trump told Glenn Beck during an interview last week that he is going to put President Biden and other "enemies" in prison when he takes by the White House in 2025. In a Sunday evening post on his Truth Social disinformation social media platform, Trump was even more explicit with his threats of violence and harm, threatening that he would treat Biden and the other "enemies" like they do in "banana republics": The Crooked Joe Biden Campaign has thrown so many Indictments and lawsuits against me that Republicans are already thinking about what we are going to do to Biden and the Communists when it's our turn. They have started a whole new Banana Republic way of thinking about political campaigns. So cheap and dirty, but that's where America is right now. Be careful what you wish for! In "banana republics" the enemies of the leader and the regime are usually imprisoned, tortured, executed, and face death squads and mass executions. Trump himself has publicly expressed his admiration for murderous dictators and autocrats such as Vladimir Putin and N. Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Continued... Agenda47 Is Trump’s plan for the United States and to grant himself ultimate power to control the executive branch without oversight or obstruction. Agenda47 would allow Trump to implement all of his hair-brained ideas such as taking all homeless people out of the cities and dumping them into camps in the desert somewhere [just as he previously did with undocumented children who he had forcibly separated from their parents], out of sight, out of mind. Trump has called for the death penalty against human and drug traffickers. And, apparently, also shoplifters. x 📢: As a former public defender I want to remind everyone that Shoplifting is a nonviolent misdemeanor with a corporate victim. It’s often resolved without jail for a first or even second offense. Trump advocating the execution of pretrial shoplifting suspects is inciting murder. — Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 1, 2023 Trump has called for the implementation of the Failed Racist Stop and Frisk policies for all police departments who wish to continue getting federal subsidies. The controversial policy allowed police officers to stop, interrogate and search New York City citizens on the sole basis of “reasonable suspicion.” Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactics violate the U.S Constitution’s 4th Amendment prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. Overwhelming evidence suggests that the policy is used as a method of racially profiling and harassing Black and Latino citizens. Minorities and many civil rights organizations such as the Center for Constitutional Rights and the NAACP, have voiced strong opposition to the policy. In 1999, Blacks and Latinos made up 50 percent of New York’s population, but accounted for 84 percent of the city’s stops. Those statistics have changed little in more than a decade. According to the court’s opinion, between 2004 and 2012, the New York Police Department made 4.4 million stops under the citywide policy. More than 80 percent of those stopped were Black and Latino people. The likelihood a stop of an African-American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of White New Yorkers stopped, and the likelihood of finding contraband on an African American who was stopped was one-third that of White New Yorkers stopped. They were less than half as likely to have guns, less than a third of likely of having drugs or anything illegal but they were 84% of the people stopped. In only 1% of those stops was an arrest made. In only 5% of those stops was a citation issued for any offense at all. Why continue a policy that doesn’t find anything wrong 95% of the time? And Trump now wants to do this all over the country? Trump wants to end birthright citizenship for the children of the undocumented. Normally, those would be called American Citizens but Trump thinks its a magnet for illegal immigration. That’s besides the fact that most of the migrants are just trying to live their lives and survive the drug cartels that *were* supplying with guns and money. There are cases of undocumented immigrants committing crimes, but it’s at a rate that is far less than U.S. citizens commit. Crime rates among undocumented immigrants are just a fraction of those of their U.S.-born neighbors, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of Texas arrest and conviction records. Compared to undocumented immigrants, U.S. citizens were twice as likely to be arrested for violent felonies in Texas from 2012 to 2018, two-and-a-half times more likely to be arrested for felony drug crimes, and over four times more likely to be arrested for felony property crimes, according to a study published by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. We have hundreds of Mass Shootings every year, but do we lift heaven and earth to prevent those crimes? No, we don’t. Many of the guns used by the cartels are purchased here and sent down there and used to terrorize the people who then come running back up here to escape the gang violence. Both with our cash being fed into the drug trade and with our guns *we* are creating the conditions causing these people to flee their home countries. Don Goldman also points out in his testimony that 90,000 migrants have come into New York recently, and there hasn’t been one violent arrest of any of those migrants. Not one. They aren’t coming here to commit crimes, they’re coming here to work and to live. Trump under Agenda47 would pardon and apologize to the January 6 insurrectionists who have been prosecuted and jailed. Then as he’s often said he would then turn around and start trying to prosecute and jail his political enemies starting with Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. Meanwhile, he’s suggested using the death penalty — or just extrajudicial vigilante murder — against General Milley. He’s cracked jokes about the attempted murder of Nancy Pelosi’s husband. And then there’s Project 2025 which is much much worse than all that. Project 2025, which is a think tank plan mostly generated by the Koch-funded Heritage Foundation, would start out by gutting the administrative state inside our government. They would change civil service rules and protections using Schedule F to remove any and all Federal employees who might gum up the work for implementing Trump’s totalitarian agenda. It would bring in new weaponized right-wing zealots eager to implement their plans into those positions to ram forward the new agenda. They’ve already got their own version of “LinkedIn” up and ready. That would throw out all “Wokeness” implementing their radical anti-LGBTQ and anti-Black ideas into the government. They would gut the Department of Education essentially putting as many of 224,000 teachers out of a job. 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