Trump win could see mass purge of state department, US diplomats fear
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Project 2025 blueprint for second Trump term envisages replacing thousands of career staff with political loyalists

Project 2025 blueprint for second Trump term envisages replacing thousands of career staff with political loyalists

America’s career diplomats are braced for the threat of a mass purge if Donald Trump wins the November election and for the potential flooding of the state department with loyalty-tested political appointees.

Rather than leading to a seamless change of course in a rightward Trumpist direction, the diplomats’ union and former ambassadors argue, such an attempted takeover would be much more likely to end in legal challenges, gridlock and chaos.

If elected, Trump has threatened to reinstate a policy he unsuccessfully attempted in his first term with the creation of “Schedule F”, a new category of federal employees which would be applied to tens of thousands of civil servants in “policy-related” jobs, robbing them of legal protections and making them liable to be fired at will.

  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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    24 days ago

    That’s probably the least insane part about Project 2025

    Project contributor Jeffrey Clark advises the future president to immediately deploy the military for domestic law enforcement and direct the DOJ to pursue Donald Trump’s adversaries by invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807. The Project recommends the arrest, detention, and deportation of undocumented immigrants. It promotes capital punishment and the speedy “finality” of such sentences.

    Using the military to hunt dissidents and then recommending “speedy” capital punishment is pretty on-brand for conservatives.

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      24 days ago

      It’s humorous (in a hopeless, resigned, utterly defeated nihilistic sort of way) how transparent the fascism has gotten. “Trump’s advisor recommends jack-booted thugs use legal pretext to punish political opponents without due process.”

      At least give me some subtext to decode, don’t slap me in the face with it like a wet slice of bologna.

      • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        24 days ago

        The GOP primarily used dog whistles until Trump showed them you can just say the quiet part out loud and MAGA will eat it up.

        • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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          22 days ago

          Hitler’s Germany has shown you only really need about a third of the people to be behind fascism for it to succeed (Hitler won with 35 percent of the popular vote). In the US, it looks like that percentage has already been reached.