The 2024 Project
“I don’t say this lightly. . . . I do consider the right wing of the Republican Party to be an emerging organized-crime group, and I consider Fox News to be a criminal enterprise.” (Dan Moldea, December 30, 2013)
See the New York Times: “‘The Daily,” . . . which explores “what a second Trump presidency would look like, and what it could mean for American democracy.”
Selected reading:
* Aram Roston, Reuters, “The Proud Boys are back: How the far-right group is rebuilding,” June 3, 2024
* Jacob Heilbrunn, New York Times, “The Real Danger If Trump Is Re-elected,” May 21, 2024.
* Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, “The Politics of Fear Itself,” May 7, 2024.
* Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, “The New Propaganda War,” May 6, 2024.
* Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone, “Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term,” April 30, 2024.
* Eric Cortellessa, Time, “How Far Trump Would Go,” April 30, 2024. (Full transcript of the interview.)
* David Smith, The Guardian, “‘A campaign for vengeance”: Critics warn of a radical second Trump term,” March 17, 2024.
* David Leonhardt, New York Times, “Donald Trump’s Second-Term Agenda,” January 25, 2024.
* Charlie Savage, Jonathan Swan, and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, “Why a Second Trump Presidency May Be More Radical Than His First,” December 4, 2024.
* Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, “What Trump’s Second Term Could Look Like,” December 4, 2023.
* Kristen Holmes, CNN, “Trump’s radical second-term agenda would wield executive power in unprecedented ways,” November 16, 2023.
* Anthony Zurcher, BBC, “What a Donald Trump second term would look like,” November 3, 2023.
The brain trusts and the enablers:
* The Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Project
* Steve Bannon in Wikipedia, and as reported by the Associated Press
* Alex Leary, Wall Street Journal, “The Conservative Coterie Behind Trump’s Second-Term Agenda,” December 15, 2023.
DEM’s columns and articles:
* April 18, 2024: Challenging RFK Jr.’s bullshit about his father’s tragic 1968 murder of his father: Does the Harvard man have the guts to take on the Akron U grad?
* March 31, 2024: Is Fox News a criminal enterprise?
* March 24, 2024: If RFK Jr. lies about his own father’s murder, then he will lie about anything
* March 7, 2024: On the sheared sheep in Trump’s fat flock (2017, Parts 1 and 2)
* February 14, 2024: 1968: A brief cautionary tale. . . . A year of crippling division and mind-numbing violence led to a Republican victory
* February 12, 2024: 25 years ago today: The U.S. Senate acquitted President Bill Clinton: Larry Flynt and I did an unpleasant job, but we made a difference (Part 5)
* January 7, 2024: 25 years ago: How Larry Flynt and I helped to save The Clinton Presidency (Part 4)
* December 19, 2023: 25 years ago: How Larry Flynt and I helped to save The Clinton Presidency (Part 3)
* December 18, 2023: 25 years ago: How Larry Flynt and I helped to save The Clinton Presidency (Part 2)
* December 17, 2023: 25 years ago: How Larry Flynt and I helped to save The Clinton Presidency (Part 1)
* November 19, 2023: 25 years ago: Remembering Brett Kavanaugh's role with the OIC during the Clinton impeachment drama
* October 29, 2023: Donald Trump and the Mafia: Reading Materials
* August 6, 2023: Donald Trump: A RICO case against a former president who acts like a mob boss