How Project 2025 could turn the US into a fascist dictatorship

 If Project 2025 is the blueprint and Trump is the vessel that activates the plan, his signature pen could begin the process of morphing our country into a fascist dictatorship of white Christian nationalists.  In the name of educating the public about Project 2025, House Democrats will hold hearings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/19/house-democrats-plan-multimedia-project-2025-hearing/

Update 10/11/2024:  Former Joint Chief General Mark Mlley calls Trump "fascist to the core"https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4929487-trump-dangerous-milley-woodward/

There is one candidate in the race for the White House, Donald Trump, who openly said he aspires to be a "dictator on day one" . He has tried to distance himself from  Project 2025 with "I did not read it". He does not have to read it to benefit his lust to be a dictator. It could happen if he spent his first day in office signing piles of executive orders and appointments supplied by Project 2025. If Trump were to follow Project 2025 and execute their scheme for taking over the executive branch in 180 days, he could turn the executive branch into the vehicle to use the power of fear and retribution to control the other two branches and the election process and ignore civil rights protections.  He attempted all of these actions in his first term, but legal constraints and staff stood in his way.  Project 2025 has now given Trump the method and the means to do it using his "official duties." The Supreme Court has granted him immunity from criminal prosecution when engaged in "official duties." Trump has already struck fear into what was once the Republican Party is an example of how he uses fear and threats to operate.  He attempted to get the active military to put down demonstrators, and he promised political violence and retribution, using the DOJ to launch investigations of his opponents, whether there was probable cause or not. He had already advocated executing generals who did not obey his orders even when they violated the Constitution.. advocating and executing disobedience generals delicensing opposition media.

Trump has had a history of drawing on Nazi terminology to support his rhetoric: While this has been extensively covered by the median,  as a memory refresher,  read this from ABC News  ttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-history-adolf-hitler-nazi-writings-analysis/    

Vance's attack on women who are childless cat women and Huckabee Sanders as women who do not have their own children as not humble are echoes of a bygone era where women knew their place, and it was not out in politics.  I saw this as a backhanded misogynistic slur, a code, and way to put Harris in her place and to explain why she is an uppity woman in a man's world. This is part of their strategy to appeal to their masculine base.

The definition of terms helps to put us on the same page. Here are mine: What is a fascist, what is a democracy, and what is a dictator/autocrat? These are bare-bones, simplistic definitions,but the discussion worth having is about which candidate fits one or the other more closely or aspires to fit the definition.

  FASCISM has many definitions, but most overlap. From Merriam-Webster: "a  ", movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascists) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and advocates a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition. "From the Cambrdge dictionary: " a political system based on a very powerful leader, state control of social and economic life, and extreme pride in country and race, with no expression of political disagreement allowed. "

COMMUNISM:  I picked this definition from the National Geographic because it was aimed at grades 5-8."Communism is a form of government most closely associated with the ideas of Karl Marx, which he outlined in The Communist Manifesto. Communism is based on the goal of eliminating socioeconomic class struggles by creating a classless society in which everyone shares the benefits of labor and the state controls all property and wealth."What's the difference between communism and fascism. This from Quizlet is the one that comes closest to mine: "Two similarities between fascism and communism are that they both imposed totalitarian governments and both claimed to rule in the national interests. One difference between the two is that communists sought world revolution while fascists pursued nationalism. Another difference is that communist supporters were the urban working class, while fascist supporters were business leaders, wealthy landowners, and the lower middle class."

DEMOCRACY : This one from Meriam Webster:  a

: government by the people especially : rule of the majority.,,," a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections."  That is roughly the kind of government we have had for 250 years.

DICTATORSHIP From  Cambridge:

"Dictatorship is a form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute
 power without effective constitutional limitations. .... 


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AUTOCRACY: from Cambridge: "government by a single person or small group that has unlimited power or authority  "     My observation: This differs only from dictatorship because it is the rule of a person,  not of a group.