Already looking ahead to the turmoil his re-election could cause, Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly circling an idea to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, deploying the military to act as domestic law enforcement.

According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, the drafting of such plans has largely been “unofficially outsourced” thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title “Project 2025.” It was identified as an immediate priority for the hypothetical resurrected Trump administration, internal communications obtained by the newspaper showed.

In response to questions from the Post, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung provided a statement: “President Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,” he said. “President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.”

    • @dannoffs
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      61 year ago

      You must be even dumber than the average bigot if you needed someone to spell that out for you. Leftists not respecting the US government isn’t some new phenomenon.

      • @cricket98@lemmy.world
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        It is kinda funny when leftists larp about how the sanctity of the US government was infringed (as if that’s some moral crime) on January 6th when you are admitting they would do the exact same thing. You can find other people in this thread who said its not okay, so while you are speaking for yourself, there are definitely people who think that way.

        • @dannoffs
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          61 year ago

          The fuck are you talking about? I explicitly said its nonsense that the idea that the sanctity of the us government being infringed was the problem. People defending the institutions of the largest capitalist empire in history by definition are not leftists.

        • @GeneralVincent@lemmy.world
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          No, not the sanctity of the US government. The sanctity of democracy. You want a dictatorship. I want democracy. You and a couple thousand people trying to force your ideas on millions of Americans is morally bankrupt