Of all things to found a nation on, money was the lowest.

What mechanism exists that will enforce court orders if DOJ declines to?

Is there any reason to think Trump won't simply ignore them?

Nancy Mace, in response to a comment about what's offensive or direspectful to LGBTQ was: "We don't have to do that anymore".

That's what Trump's victory means to them.

They're going to ransack the Treasury by "investing" America's reserves.

Every day they take more pages of Project 2025 and write "Executive Order" on the top.

This was a well-funded and highly organized plan to install a permanent conservative autocracy. It will be studied by historians. Somewhere.

What the Germans used as "Hail Victory!" the new American fascists will call "My heart for America!"

And it means the same thing, because it is the same thing. It's authoritarian white nationalism and we've been conquered by it.

Even knowing their plans for years, reading all about Project 2025, and after resigning myself to the idea that dictatorship was inevitable after the election, it still feels surreal.

Warrantless raids. Thousands of detentions without due process. And now we're building concentration camps.

So the plane crash is the fault of DEI, apparently.

In fascism everything is the fault of the scapegoated minority group.

If it wasn't so genuinely frightening all of this is so textbook it would be boring.

One take-away I've had from this last election is that the Democratic Party's functional role in America is to placate the working class while maintaining a profitable capitalist environment.

We don't have a "left" in any sense that a European would recognize.

A lot of people are talking about courts and legality.

What does "overturned" mean if the DOJ, Homeland Security and the Defense Department just do it anyway?

Who executes the enforcement of judicial orders if the executive branch declines to?

Among yesterday's Executive Orders was a requirement that all Executive Branch departments reconstitute their oversight and regulatory boards to grant "noncareer" (read: political appointees) the majority on them.

There are no brakes.

No matter what happens with this guy Luigi, that plutrocrat is still dead. No matter what happens next, it will still be true that the public had a week of self-awareness that this kind of violence is at least on some level a social act of self defense.

There are going to be copycats.

Any government where 30 to 50M of their citizens live in poverty and nobody can remember a time when the country wasn't getting worse is at serious risk of overthrow. Hindsight may conclude that a popularist uprising was inevitable, but that the right did it first.

I'm not sure any incumbent could win after that bout of inflation. Carter and Bush senior lost their re-election bids because of the economy.

And despite being her own person with her own message, Kamala Harris was never able to represent something beyond the incumbent status quo.