- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- politics@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- politics@beehaw.org
The former president has pushed a slew of terrifying proposals, both publicly and privately, that he plans to unleash on America should he take down Biden
Here’s what’s at stake:
- He will indict Biden and his other political enemies
- He will round up, intern, and deport undocumented immigrants
- He will send the military to the border
- He will invade Mexico
- He will round up the homeless and send the National Guard into cities to fight crime
- He will bring back the death penalty in a big way
- He will make stuff more expensive by taxing all imported goods
- He will reevaluate America’s participation in NATO
- He will roll back all of Biden’s climate progress and reinvest in fossils fuels
- He will construct “freedom cities” filled with flying cars
- He will try to overhaul the education system in the MAGA image
- He will torch the First Amendment by going after non-MAGA media
- He will legally delegitimize trans Americans
- He will pardon the Jan. 6 rioters
- He will gut the federal government and take unprecedented control of what’s left
Which strikes me as odd since Trump didn’t gain anything on his own merit.
Those are the exact sort of people who idolize Ayn Rand the most.
Libertarians love to gesture vaguely towards unregulated freedom and even anarchy, as if it’s some panacea for society’s problems.
Of course, that’s usually about as far or deep as their plans go. They think grit and gumption are enough to get us there, somehow, and that we’ll all sing kumbaya, if only we’d let capitalism run unfettered and let people use racial slurs and hate speech with impunity.
As an anarchist is hilarious watching right libertarians parrot a bunch of lefty shit they heard from a podcast all while not realizing them and their ideology is one of the first things that would have to go in order to realize their half baked fantasies
Except weight.