Authoritarianism Expert Exposes Chilling Codeword In Project 2025 Plan For Trump

Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Wednesday warned that one of the most alarming things in the right-wing Heritage Foundations Project 2025 handbook is the admission that Donald Trump didnt 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-tanks proposal document that is widely expected to form the basis of a potential second Trump terms 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 handbooks proposal which has been echoed by Trump himself to mass deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

One thing thats very important for people to realize, she said, is that undocumented immigrants wont be the only ones who end up being targeted.

Its always more people, said Ben-Ghiat.

They use one group to have the justification to build the repressive infrastructure like the camps, the transit camps, whatever theyre going to do, she added. But be assured, and this is the history of authoritarianism, many groups of people will be targeted to be in that.

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