Mulberry Heel
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Whether they ever admit it or not, a plurality of American voters this time around have voted to install a Russian-style kleptocracy at the heart of the federal government. And with the main architect of Project 2025 being placed in charge of the national budget, I think every welfare and social safety net program right up to Social Security is on the chopping block, and likely in very drastic ways. And they'll start as soon as they take office on January 20. It'll be like FDR's famous "Hundred Days" in 1933 of passing massive amounts of New Deal legislation, except this time it will be in reverse - they're going to cut or eliminate as much of it as possible.That graphic. Holy lord. The next four years are going to suck.
And given that this what most people voted for, let them have it. We're all going to suffer, but I've become convinced that the only way this madness ends is for his voters and people sitting on the sidelines (like the 6 million or so Democrats who voted for Biden but didn't turn out for Kamala) to directly experience and see for themselves the effects of what they're about to do. All we've heard from Trumpers since his first election in 2016 is that things won't really get that bad, either with attempts to overturn democracy or with putting clowns in charge of the economy and government, so we're about to see if they're right. I don't think they are, at all, but this is what they voted for, so have at it.