Donald Trump has already been president once, and has been outspoken about the policies he would support and enact if elected again in November.

He’s promised mass deportations of millions of migrants and suggested the United States would not defend foreign allies from aggression in certain circumstances. He’s vowed to eviscerate the federal bureaucracy and staff those career civil service roles with political loyalists, use law enforcement to target foes and painted a dire picture of America’s future if he does not return to the White House.

In two wide-ranging interviews with TIME Magazine published Tuesday, Trump expanded upon that vision for a second term, which would buck traditional conservative viewpoints about the role of government and expand the powers of the presidency that he would then wield against a wide range of groups in America.

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    6 months ago

    Dems really should have unfucked the electoral maps by now. They are too confident that they can keep playing the good cop on us even though the bad cop is a monster

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      34·
      6 months ago

      Part of the issue is really that we’re on Modern Constitutional Republic version 2.27, when we should be on version 3 or 4 by now. The hero worship of the “founding fathers” has made it difficult to change anything structurally, and the government is creaking under the weight. I don’t know how healthy it is for a large and diverse country to have rule by the metropole with a purely popular system, but the level of overrepresentation of rural voters is a real problem, and we can’t do anything about it. Maybe at a minimum the president should be elected by popular vote.

      • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        It’s not hero worship, it’s the status quo. Look at your elected representatives: largely rich, white, male Catholics. The founding of this country favored them, and they’ve fought progress every step of the way. The spectre of the Founding Fathers is just to hide the racism and class warfare from the idiotic masses.