🚨🚨 "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America". Stellar piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social making sense of the dramatic constitutional crisis which is underway under the new Trump administration. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... - ThreadSky

profjacob.bsky.social • 7 days ago

🚨🚨 "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America". Stellar piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social making sense of the dramatic constitutional crisis which is underway under the new Trump administration. 🧵
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK37Xep8noAJSXM25-XvMk7kE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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leehav.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yes wonderful

kenlad1.bsky.social•7 days ago

Americans must surely realise that their democracy and the future of their country in in huge peril. Musk is not American, whatever
Musk is doing he is doing for Musk not for the benefit of Americans

profjacob.bsky.social•7 days ago

"Despite its name, the DOGE is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its boss Musk, have instead focused their activity on the eradication of the federal civil service, along with its culture and values & its replacement with something different. In other words: regime change."/2

profjacob.bsky.social•7 days ago

"No one should be surprised or insulted by this phrase, because this is exactly what Trump & many who support him have long desired. During his 2024 campaign, Trump spoke of Election Day as “Liberation Day,” a moment when, in his words, “vermin” & “radical left lunatics” would be eliminated from..

profjacob.bsky.social•7 days ago

public life. J. D. Vance has said that Trump should “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” Steve Bannon prefers to talk about the “deconstruction of the administrative state,” but that amounts to the same thing. /4

profjacob.bsky.social•7 days ago

"These ideas are not original to Vance or Bannon: In the 21st century, elected leaders such as Hugo Chávez or Viktor Orbán have also used their democratic mandates for the same purpose. Chávez fired 19,000 employees of the state oil company; Orbán dismantled labor protections for the civil service."

profjacob.bsky.social•7 days ago

"Trump, Musk, and Russell Vought, the newly appointed director of the Office of Management & Budget and architect of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025—the original regime-change blueprint—are now using IT operations, captured payments systems, secretive engineers, a blizzard of executive orders

profjacob.bsky.social•7 days ago

, and viral propaganda to achieve the same thing. This appears to be DOGE’s true purpose. Although Trump and Musk insist they are fighting fraud, they have not yet provided evidence for their sweeping claims. Although they demand transparency, Musk conceals his own conflicts of interest. "/6

gogopoet.bsky.social•7 days ago

It's all about ethnic cleansing and reinstating the supremacy of wealthy WASP males, who are heterosexual and heartless.

nilsboegborn.bsky.social•7 days ago

The dawn of fascism shows its colors

deborahparr.bsky.social•7 days ago

I can’t bring myself to finish reading it this morning. Truly, awfully, dreadful, in the full meaning of that word. Full of dread.

humanity101.bsky.social•7 days ago

👀👆💯✔️
‼️NB: https://youtu.be/g9xQfjfhpcE?si=Z6uxxt6tdnT-OnGQ

douwekorff.bsky.social•7 days ago

Scary but insightful write-up of the capturing of the system by extreme right-wing mad zealots. Good Americans, Europe and the rest of the world take note and fight back!

pettet.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thanks for sharing Jacob @profjacob.bsky.social

Again an excellent written article by Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social Thank you Anne 🙏

Especially: "There is still time to block this regime change, to preserve the old values. But first we need to be clear about what is happening, and why"

jpackendorff.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is soon mostly about what comes after Trump. He will have his vanity projects and pass legislation against insulting him. Meanwhile, deconstructed rule of law, systematic misinformation, AI-enhanced surveillance and gradual replacement of USD with crypto will be a toxic mix for US democracy.

profjacob.bsky.social•7 days ago

Very toxic indeed.

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