and the FBI (which used to be conservatives’ favorite bureaucracy, along with the military), eliminate cabinet secretaries and replace career civil servants with trump loyalists and flunkies (https://www.alternet.org/authoritarianism-project-2025-trump/); ...
secretaries of defense wrote a letter in which they stated that U.S. armed forces should not be used to settle election disputes. This came as Pres.Donald Trumprefused to concede toJoe Biden, alleging—without evidence—widespread voter fraud in the2020 election; Trump ultimately left office at...