U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters from the Resolute Desk after signing an government order to nominate the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration within the Oval Workplace on the White Home on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Working for president final yr, Donald Trump disowned Venture 2025, the laundry checklist of radical calls for gathered collectively by right-wing assume tanks. Trump claimed that Venture 2025 had no affect on him and was solely being raised by Democrats as a political assault. However now that Trump is in energy, he’s enacting an agenda of dismantling the welfare state that’s following Venture 2025 in shut element, as my Nation colleague Chris Lehmann documented in a recent column.
Chris and I discuss Trump’s mobilization of Christian nationalist ideologues within the service of a making the state subservient to massive enterprise. We additionally take up the remarkably supine Democratic Occasion response, and in addition potential sources of resistance within the courts, the federal authorities, and, most crucially, from outraged public opinion mobilized into protest.
