Trump assembles cabinet of fascist repression and imperialist war

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : She will be in overall charge of repressive agencies, such as the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Secret Service.
52% : In 2019, while on the "Fox & Friends" talkshow, the ultra-right program of which Trump is an avid viewer, Hegseth led a campaign for the exoneration of three soldiers convicted or awaiting trial before military courts for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
47% : Now that Trump is moving rapidly to implement these plans and has appointed two top aides, Stephen Miller and Thomas Doman, who actually contributed to the 2025 Project, the Democrats have dropped such protests and declared themselves committed to a "peaceful transfer of power."
44% : The opposition to Trump must be led by the working class, based on a socialist program, and spearheaded by the building of a new revolutionary leadership, the Socialist Equality Party.
38% : Trump is also seeking to push through his appointments without Senate confirmation.
37% : Indeed, according to White House aides, the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine will be the sole focus of the meeting between Biden and Trump in the White House.
37% : There must and will be mass opposition to the policies Trump is preparing.
34% : After meeting with Trump, Hegseth summarized the president's approach as follows: "The benefit of the doubt should go to the guys pulling the trigger."
34% : Biden already started one", traces the continuity between the two administrations:Trump stands to inherit enforcement tools from the Biden administration that are even more powerful than the policies at his disposal last time.
33% : Biden, who is welcoming Trump to the White House on Wednesday, is acting as if it is his responsibility not only to guarantee Trump's succession but to help implement his policies.
33% : Trump issued pardons, called each murderer personally to commiserate with the "injustice" done to them, and boasted publicly of overriding the decisions of top military commanders, who had felt it necessary to mount a few token prosecutions to offset revelations of the avalanche of atrocities committed by US forces in both wars.
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30% : As Trump prepares to rapidly implement his plans, the Biden administration, which is in power for another two months, is doing absolutely nothing to alert the population, let alone take measures to stop the massive assault on democratic rights.
28% : Just four years ago, the Republicans responded to the defeat of Trump with ferocious denunciations, followed by an attempted coup.
25% : There is no suggestion that the Biden administration should take any action to defend the rights of the more 70 million people who voted against Trump, or for that matter the more than 70 million people who voted for him.
24% : "A report Tuesday in the Washington Post, headlined, "Trump is planning a border crackdown.
18% : There are only two criteria for the nominees so far announced: complete alignment with the fascist policies Trump seeks to put into place and unquestioning personal loyalty to the would-be dictator.January 20, 2025 will thus mean not merely the re-entry of the former president into the White House but the installation of a regime with his aides and stooges in charge of all the levers of power, committed to using these powers against all domestic opposition from the American people and against whatever countries Trump chooses to target for subversion, blockade or open warfare.
10% : In the final weeks of the failed presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats would make noises about Trump as a threat to democracy, and highlight the threats of mass roundups, the targeting of political opponents, and the policy measures outlined by the Trump-backed 2025 Project, a 900-page manual for social counterrevolution.
8% : On Tuesday, the day before Trump's visit to the White House, Biden issued a few anodyne tweets on Veterans Day, while saying nothing about the fascists Trump is planning on putting in charge of the state apparatus.
6% : The regime that Trump and Miller are devising and that Homan and Noem will enforce will make the detention camps used against Japanese Americans during World War II look like child's play.

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