Trump's Second-Term Goal: Shattering the Norms He Didn't Already Break

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In little over an hour, Donald Trump suggested the United States should default on its debts for the first time in history, injected doubt over the country’s commitment to defending Ukraine from Russia’s invasion, dangled pardons for most of the Capitol rioters convicted of crimes and refused to say he would abide by the results of the next presidential election.

The second-term vision Trump sketched out at a CNN town hall event Wednesday would represent a sharp departure from core American values that have been at the bedrock of the nation for decades: its creditworthiness, its credibility with international allies and its adherence to the rule of law at home.

Trump’s provocations were hardly shocking. His time in office was often defined by a the-rules-don’t-apply-to-me approach to governance and a lack of interest in upholding the post-World War II national security order, and at 76 he is not bound to change much.

But his performance nonetheless signaled an escalation of his bid to bend the government to his wishes as he runs again for the White House, only this time with a greater command of the Republican Party’s pressure points and a plan to demolish the federal bureaucracy.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-second-term-goal-shattering-114443322.html

Everything Trump touches dies.

[Walleye]

1. He wants to get revenge on all 81 million people voted against him, he's been plotting it

[MayReasonRule]

2. There Will Be No Trump Second Turn - It Would Be The Second Coming Of Hitler

Reason will not allow it.

Reason will not desist.

Reason will resist.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. A second Trump administration would be much worse (we kiss our democratic form of govt. goodbye)

TFG did not think that he was going to win in 2016 and so TFG was no prepared to implement his plans to takeover the US govt. This time around, TFG is planning on destroying our democratic form of government if he is re-elected in 2024

If TFG is re-elected n 2024, we can kiss our democratic form of government goodbye

Link to tweet

https://www.vox.com/2023/5/13/23708595/trump-second-term-cnn-town-hall

In 2016, Trump put absolutely zero effort into preparing for the possibility that he might actually govern after the election. The result is that he took office with a staff heavily drawn from the ranks of the GOP establishment, some of whom worked to curb his most disruptive impulses.

This time around, we can expect no such discordance — meaning that we’re likely to get Trump unleashed from day one.

Moreover, experience with politicians like Trump abroad suggests that Trump’s agenda will be every bit as radical as the town hall suggests — with a focus on dismantling constraints on Trump’s authority and undermining the fairness of the political system.....

The effort to find Trump a friendly staff does not merely cover traditional political appointees. In 2020, Trump issued an executive order called Schedule F — which would, in effect, allow him to convert over thousands of career civil service jobs into political appointees. While Schedule F was not successfully implemented — President Biden rescinded it when he took office — there is an extensive plan in place to revive it as soon as Trump returns to the White House (one that Democrats in Congress tried and failed to block). If successful, it would allow him to replace what he calls the “deep state” with the Trump state.

Trump, in short, will be much better positioned to get “his” people in power this time around — and bend the entirety of the government to his will.