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During their protest of Russell Vought’s confirmation, Senate Democrats sounded the alarm about Vought’s role in drafting Project 2025 and his support for vastly expanding the power of the president.

Vought, said Wisconsin senator Tammy Baldwin at 10:30 pm eastern time on Wednesday, “has openly called for the president to defy congress and take control of federal funding decisions that are constitutionally vested in the legislative branch.”

Schiff accused the Trump administration of unlawfully attempting to break down the separation of powers and said Vought would play a role in aiding that effort.

“This is an effort to try to consolidate power, all the power of this government, in the hands of Donald Trump and a few of his hand-picked very wealthy, billionaire friends,” said California Democrat Adam Schiff.

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[–] TommySoda 62 points 5 hours ago (24 children)

The alarms been going off since fucking November when he won the election and y'all haven't done a god damn thing except bend over and take it like a bunch of cowards.

[–] DarkCloud 29 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Since November?

...try 2014.

I spent ten years trying to point out this stuff, ever since the alt-right first emerged and tried to popularize the term "Cultural Marxism".

Had to counter that one by becoming a Wikipedian, and that sucked.

Since November? Nope. Your alarm is broke, mine went off way too early.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago)

Obama promising a leftie-style government, then continuing to implement neoliberalism was my alarm that fascism was coming. This is also when I started getting into politics. Had I been both alive and into politics in the 1980s, I probably would have said Reagan was the alarm, and I would've agreed with that today, since he was largely responsible for introducing neoliberalism in the US.

Neoliberalism was our late stage capitalism, which was always destined to fail. Now we're past that and now running into fascism, which was defined by the founder of fascism (Mussolini) as the merging or corporations and governments, which is what we're seeing now.

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