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Why a second Trump term would be even worse than his first [1]

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Date: 2024-10-22  

The Harris-Cheney town hall last night really drove home the threat Donald Trump would pose if he got back into power.

Some folks ask: why think the next Trump term would be worse than the last one?

Here’s why.

1. Vance was chosen because, unlike Pence, he's willing to violate his oath of office if it helps Trump exercise unlimited power.

2. The Supreme Court has now ruled that Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution if his crimes are committed in his “official capacity.”

3. When Trump won in 2016, he wasn’t ready. He didn’t have a plan for how to actually enact his extreme agenda. This time, he has a whole playbook. It’s called Project 2025.

x Before I was governor, I was a high school teacher and football coach.



Trust me. You take the time to draw up a playbook like Project 2025, you’re gonna use it. pic.twitter.com/kZTYI7KQb6 — Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) October 21, 2024

4. In his first term, Trump appointed people who were shocked by Trump’s contempt for the law and our Constitution. They’re now sounding the alarm and opposing him. This time, he’d appoint minions willing to carry out orders no matter what.

Case in point. Trump tried to send in the military to “crack skulls” during protests in 2020. The chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, pushed back. Milley now tells us that Trump is “fascist to the core.”

Trump is now threatening to use the U.S. military to crush “the enemy within.” But this time, there’s no chance he’ll appoint people like Mark Milley to leadership positions.

That’s part of Project 2025: pre-vetting possible appointees for personal loyalty to Trump.

5. Two big things Trump DID do in his first term: appoint far-right justices who repealed Roe, and gave a multi-trillion dollar tax cut to billionaires and big corporations.

If he wins again, you can bet: he’ll ban abortion and pass another giant tax cut for the wealthy.

To sum up:

As before, Trump would go after women’s freedom to make decisions about abortion, and hand out trillions of dollars to billionaires.

But unlike before, he’d be empowered to carry out his dream of becoming a dictator on Day One.

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