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Mike McMillen of Harborside is a retired commercial real estate developer. He is also a former board member of several schools and current chair of a college scholarship foundation.
“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and a chief architect of Project 2025, said on a conservative podcast earlier this month.
I believe the revolution of which Roberts speaks is a fascist takeover of the U.S. government currently underway, which will be brought into full force and effect if Donald Trump is elected president. This is not an exaggeration.
The key points to keep in mind are:
Trump has said that he will be a dictator on day one of a second term, although he later said it was a joke.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently provided nearly blanket immunity for presidents for any “official acts” while in office, apparently up to and including the assassination of political opponents.
Project 2025 provides a detailed blueprint to be followed in a second Donald Trump administration for what I see as the establishment of a fascist government to replace our democracy.
Wake up America! The choice we face in the upcoming presidential election is stark. I believe Trump is an amoral, felonious, vindictive individual surrounded by people much like himself.
I believe Joe Biden, whatever his shortcomings, is a decent man who has been a good president in many respects, backed by a team of similarly competent and honorable people. Our booming economy has not done this well in decades.
While much work lies ahead to improve the lives of ordinary Americans, I think a second Trump term would most certainly launch the U.S. into an economic, legal and social abyss from which it would not recover in our lifetimes or even the lifetimes of our grandchildren.
If you doubt this dire warning, I urge you to read the text of Project 2025, which is available online at the Heritage Foundation website. It is a compendium of resentment and retribution orchestrated by so-called conservatives frustrated that their dark vision of society has been rejected repeatedly by the vast majority of Americans at least since the Civil War. Trump has disavowed Project 2025, likely because its proposals are so broadly unpopular, but its authors played prominent roles in the first Trump administration and likely will in a second one.
In both tone and substance, I believe that Project 2025 parallels Adolf Hitler’s 1925 publication, “Mein Kamp,” which called for retribution against perceived and imagined enemies and a complete reordering of civil society as a police state. By 1945, Germany (as well as most of Europe) lay in ruins. It likely would not have recovered except for the generous support of the U.S. Marshall Plan, a notable example of the effectiveness of enlightened public policy. But if we fail as a country, who will bail us out? It is up to us to save ourselves now, before it is too late.
