Dictator on day one: Team Trump is already in disarray in less than two weeks
It’s been less than two weeks since the election, but we can see Donald Trump and the GOP moving rapidly in their efforts to take sweeping authoritarian control of our government and give enormous power to the president. Winning the seven battleground states Trump won by narrow margins—and with just 50% of the popular vote—doesn’t come close to President Obama’s 385 Electoral College vote win and 53% popular vote win. Trump is putting anti-immigration hardliner Tom Homan in charge of the border, naming him “border czar.” Homan, who vows mass deportations, had already worked in Trump’s administration the first time around, carrying out its most brutal actions as ICE director. The former Republican House member from New York, Lee Zeldin, will be in charge of stripping the Environmental Protection Agency for the big oil companies, while MAGA loyalist and conspiracy theorist Rep. Mike Waltz has been tapped as Trump’s national security advisor. And nobody should think that Democrats can’t win special elections in even the reddest places, since they did just that after Trump took office in 2017, went to the extremes, and horrified people.
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