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Authoritarianism Expert Exposes Chilling 'Codeword' In 'Project 2025' Plan For Trump
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat also highlighted “one of the most alarming things” about the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s handbook for a potential second Trump term.
Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Wednesday warned that “one of the most alarming things” in the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” handbook is the admission that Donald Trump didn’t accomplish all he wanted to in his first administration.
“They got a slow start […] so their codeword is ‘day one,’” Ben-Ghiat told MSNBC’s Katie Phang of the think-tank’s proposal document that is widely expected to form the basis of a potential second Trump term’s policies.
“Already politically-vetted people” are in place and will immediately implement the plans if Trump wins the 2024 election, said the history professor at New York University who authored “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.”
Ben-Ghiat cited the handbook’s proposal — which has been echoed by Trump himself — to mass deport millions of undocumented immigrants.
“One thing that’s very important for people to realize,” she said, is that undocumented immigrants won’t be the only ones who end up being targeted.