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Vichy America
They are all around us, and we don’t even know who they are there. Friends, neighbors, the police, judges, the clergy, teachers, doctors, journalists, and the owners of some of the biggest companies in the country — if not the world. These people, many nameless but just as many well-known players, are working diligently to reshape our nation so that it caters to the few and the powerful while denying the rest of us the protections guaranteed in the Constitution.
Project 25 was out there for all to see — in the same way Hitler’s Mein Kampf was out there. It was a lot of «document,» but there it was, a relatively detailed plan for dismantling the world’s biggest and seemingly loneliest superpower — the oldest democracy even. Caught with their pants down, the authors denied the plan was real. Trump did what he does best: He lied about knowing anything about it.
“Trump said he knows nothing about it and doesn’t know any of the authors. I believe him” was how many Americans justified casting votes for a felon promising to become the country’s first dictator.
And here we are, despite his lies that he didn’t know “any of those people.” Many of “those people” are working 24/7, and go through Project 25 page by page, and putting into action. The average…
