The Coming Republican Deep State

[Celerity]

Republican plans to weaponize the federal government should freeze your blood

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/the-coming-republican-deep-state

https://archive.ph/c9PK6



Elected Republicans are, by and large, constrained in what they can say because they still have to face the voters. This is why senators don't sound like representatives and why representatives in competitive districts don't sound like Lauren Boebert. As long voters could potentially notice their candidate is a raving lunatic intending them great harm, elected Republicans tend to keep their more extreme plans quiet. This is not true for the media personalities of the right, however. The talking heads of the vast right-wing propaganda machine are a bellwether for where the GOP is planning to go. Right now, one of the things they’re starting to gleefully describe is the full-scale weaponization of the federal government. This should freeze the blood in your veins.

Remember “Schedule F?” You really should

A quick refresher for you because “Schedule F” is a very innocuous name for the single most dangerous idea Republicans have had since “the Southern Strategy” and its natural end result: Donald Trump. Near the end of Trump’s criminal presidency, Trump and his cronies tried to implement something they called “Schedule F.” The plan was to fire thousands of civil servants, and either replace them with loyal Trump sycophants or leave the positions empty. Lawfare explains:



There were two tracks of thought here.

Firstly, if Trump couldn’t hold on to power, he would leave the federal government crippled for Joe Biden. Trump and the GOP loathe the entire concept of a functioning government for the exact same reason bank robbers despise a functioning police department: it is harder to commit crime when someone is watching. There was also the vain hope that Trump could stuff in hundreds of loyalists at the last minute to undermine Biden’s administration, or create his own “Deep State” to do what he claimed had been done to him. Trump holdovers like Louis DeJoy at the USPS and Joseph Cuffari at the Secret Service for example, have been openly working against the best interests of the United States in furtherance of Trump’s agenda. The second idea behind Schedule F is by far the more dangerous. If Trump did manage to overthrow American democracy, he would be able to corrupt the bureaucracy and remove all of the obstacles that had kept him from running rampant for four years. Republicans have not given up on this dream.

“Ideological purity tests”........

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. The bureaucracy is the flywheel of government -- it resists sudden changes in operation.

The radicalized Republican party is no less a threat to the country than the Confederacy was.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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