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MAGA: Communism bad!
Also MAGA: Stalin-esque purge of military brass on day one.
Man, there's so many weird half-informed implications there I don't even know where to start but Trump bad and Stalin bad so why bother?
Sure, it's just like that. Just like the Great Purge, no notes.
They are considering charging people with treason though, and this is the group of people that keeps screaming about how people convicted of treason should be executed.
... And Trump and his ilk keep saying they want to deport at least a million people a year, which is logistically impossible without directing segments of the military to do it.
... And he keeps saying he wants to use the military to crack down on 'the enemy within', including military tribunals for basically any prominent politician or journalist he's offended by, as well military deployment to put down any riot or protest involving anyone to his left.
... And then there's Stephen Miller's Plan.
That would be a ... pretty... totally, complete and overt transformation of the military into an overtly partisan force, you know, potentially setting up different State's National Guards into direct conflict with other State's Nat. Guards and local authorities.
Yuck yuck, Private Red State Army, yuck yuck, Red Army, yuck yuck yuck.
... Oh and of course Trump just keeps yammering on about overtly politicizing courts, the FBI, you know, just everything.
Vivek has said, stone cold, either being an utterly incompetent idiot, or a decent liar, that his plan for downsizing the civil servant workforce would be to just take every gov employee, if their SSN starts with an even number, fire them, then of the remainder, every SSN that ends with an odd number, fire them.
75% reduction in overhead, and, I again stress that Vivek delivered this all completely seriously... He said this would have absolutely no negative effect on the ability of these agencies to perform their duties.
... And then you backfill that with totally unqualified people who just basically check off enough MAGA loyalty points, akin to how Christian scholars and scientists at fundamentalist think tanks have to sign a faith affadavit.
...
I guess maybe ... 'baby's first Stalin-esque purge' would have better captured that this would likely (hopefully?) be more inept (initially, at least) at direct mass murder and imprisonment than the NKVD's terror under basically the direct command of Stalin and Beria.
... Or, maybe Trump will actually go completely nuts, you know, fully commit to the bit.
It's kinda the whole problem with an absurdly singly powerful person backed by a like minded, well positioned bunch of amoral cultish bureacrats, in a government system that offers fewer and fewer effective barriers to the enacting of whatever they decree:
You can basically only count on them being either incompetent or not sufficiently pissed off, or distracted by some other random bugaboo issue.