[moshun]

I’m not sure if what you’re proposing as a libel thesis actually is. Keep in mind the Heritage Foundation wrote the literal playbook (Project 2025) that the Trump admin is clearly following. In P2025 they clearly call out the intent to dismantle the U.S. government, remove safeguards and checks against presidential power and replace career public servants with Trump loyalists by the 10s of thousands.

That’s not some liberal talking point. That’s straight from conservatives. Feel free to see how far along they are in implementing P2025 here:

https://www.project2025.observer/

[hayst4ck]

Project 2025 architect and current head of the office of management and budget said, on video:

We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.

[jauntywundrkind]

Even Vought & 2025 didn't expect such a blunt chainsaw approach, just firing any and everyone who technically could be fired without cause.

But man they are still seemingly getting so much of the teardown of this nation that they wanted.

There's still a huge amount of America alseep or worshipping those bringing the end of America, but my hope is still that eventually the endless lies and obfuscation wear thing. That we can conclusively see who the villains are. That was a huge part of Project 2025, and I think it was always a fantasy, that America abandoned our allies and starting trade wars and joining with the Russians isn't going to make us think the past was the villains here (you awful monsters).

> Russ Vought Got His Trauma — But Not the Villains He Imagined

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/28/russ-vought-got-his-tr...