The POTUS executive orders and other executive actions from the past week show two things:
1) Project 2025 is absolutely a dominant force in this second term. Many policies and key personnel are being determined by a white nationalist / Christian fundamentalist agenda that is being implemented without any meaningful resistance (or signs of awareness) from the opposition party. Individual judges, bureaucrats , and politicians are resisting the rapid unconstitutional transformation of the US federal government here and there but the party expected to most effectively oppose POTUS and his party are mostly going along with the new order of things. Maybe Bibi should order some more airstrikes on residential buildings to see if they’re still paying attention at all.
(Sarcasm, friends.)
2) POTUS, despite his effluent rhetoric of freedom, is clearly all about unlimited power. Slogans aside, none of this is about the US Constitution, or law and order, or liberty for the people that make America great. It’s about power, seizing and wielding power from the Oval Office to remake America in the image of one political group’s fever dream, with the eager support of America’s corporate crony class (especially the tech and defense corporations). This expansive vision of corporate state power is not conservative and not libertarian (and certainly not aligned with the classical liberalism of the founding fathers of the USA).
It is fascistic.
(You were expecting everyone to make awkward gestures from the podium, my friends?)
Sigh
It’s gonna be a bumpy ride