I'm pretty tired from the election. This post is made to address the many post election threads on the board. It's paying attention to the minutiae is what made me tired. Now I can focus on the broader picture, as the minutiae everyone else posts provides illustration and examples.
I can start to say this is a Potemkin Presidency as it is built on lies and deception. It is designed to fool the rubes who voted for him. However, I predict the next two years will tell us whether this will have been The Emergency Presidency and the last elected presidency. I suspect he wants to be dictator for life, which will hopefully be short. Here's my reasoning.
He wants to declare an emergency about crime and immigration, disregarding that the numbers nowhere back that up. He has both Houses of Congress and a compliant Supreme Court who has granted him immunity from nearly everything as long as he declares it's part of his job. He wants to use force to deport many people. Since he declared an emergency, he will claim powers. His rubes will allow it. The compliant media will dutifully report on it favorably.
He wants to cut social services ostensibly to reduce the deficit, which he will massively increase with tax cuts. He will fuel inflation with tariffs that will enable more transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% to the top ten.
He wants to purge the military and the civil service of all non loyal minions. The ones remaining will dismantle the existing state. When there is no longer the ability to enforce laws, corporations can do what they want. The orange one will declare it all tickety boo and will devolve all elections to the states, then refuse to accept national results, will have effectively eliminated America.
Change my mind.
CDF
The emergency presidency
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