If the Dems were smart, they'd make a big show of doing this. RFK is way more popular with conservative independents than liberal ones.
Raise RFKs visibility and signal that he's "important" enough to warrant this level of protection and maybe he gets more coverage and splits the vote. Only like 4% or something support RFK, but that's still a significant voting block in a close election
We'll all understand it as schutzstaffel soon enough, I guess
US presidents get SS protections for life after their term is over
They have, and they haven't. Intentionally. Basically, they defined what counts as Official acts but not Unofficial acts. POTUS only has immunity for official acts.
So, say Biden drone strikes Trump and claims immunity for protecting the constitution or whatever. He immediately gets taken to court for murder, sedition, etc. The DC district court finds "yep he's immune alright". The ruling will get brought before the Supreme Court at which point they'll say "oh actually, the president is immune from everything except drone striking political rivals - obviously the FoUnDiNg fAtHeRs wanted the president to be able to do anything EXCEPT drone strike white people. Biden, you're guilty of murder and sedition now and will be summarily executed".
Then what. Civil war, I guess? All the "moderates" and "undecided" voters would make up their minds pretty quick and vote in whatever ghoul republicans put on the ticket. They'd probably use Biden's action as pretext to crack down on all ideologies left of fascism. Say "trans ideology" is to blame and use the FBI and CIA (which they'll then have complete control over) to imprison LGBT people en masse, then academics, political rivals, "the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country" as Trump said, etc.
Who knows what would happen, because the entire political landscape would radically change and SCOTUS would never give Biden immunity to do jack shit - they left the ruling sufficiently detailed to stop all prosecution of Trump and grant him immunity for Jan 6, but sufficiently vague that as soon as Biden provides them ammo, they'll immediately use it against the entire Dem establishment.
Yep, that is the primary issue. Without making it impossible for the republicans to gain the presidency again, it will happen eventually.
Well, there is some (very liberal) action being taken to prevent it. Basically, there is a large congressional task force trying to figure out how to prevent Project 2025 from being implemented and also another focused on trying to prevent/challenge the sweeping presidential immunity granted by the supreme court 2 weeks ago. They've proposed a constitutional amendment to specifically state that the president does not have criminal immunity and have plans to prevent actions being taken/generally be obstructionist.
Now, the obvious problems are 1) you have to keep "stopping project 2025" every 4 years, and as soon as a Republican gets into office - boom, it's done. 2) constitutional amendments require 2/3 majority votes in the House and Senate to pass - and Dems will never have a 2/3 majority, and the vote will be on party lines. 3) as soon as it is implemented, the changes will all be made legal - the fascists will shape the gov't around them as soon as they gain power, that's the whole point of what project 2025 is.
Yep. He could send SCOTUS and Trump to Gitmo or seal team 6 them. Some might call that shortsighted, but he could do it - the fallout and precedent would just be... complicated
Yeah, but like expanded all the way. Full executive control of all agencies (including FBI and CIA and state department) and also (essentially) the judiciary.
Not as fascist as it could be.
Project 2025 is more than just the "Mandate for Leadership" playbook. It's also a comprehensive, searchable personnel database of all the most extreme right-wing fascist ghouls who are totally on board with all the stuff in Mandate for Leadership who they will cram into the judiciary at all levels, every agency they don't destroy, and all other appointed gov't positions. It took a lot of work and required people to build and maintain it. It didn't happen in 2017 because it didn't exist yet.
Trump doesn't have to be the one to implement it. It could be any Republican politician. Once it is implemented, executive power will be expanded massively, the courts will be fully captured, all important gov't agencies will be under direct executive branch control, etc, etc. Full fascist state in 180 days.
Source? Idk if joking bc this is the world we live in now
Oh no - that's different than the polling I'd seen. I think the stuff I saw was before the whole brain worms thing, so maybe it's more of a mixed bag now.