Trump poised to double down on immigration crackdown and refuse concessions to new Democratic majority in Congress

Donald Trump set the stage for his administration to lurch further to the right this weekend, claiming the US had taken a “giant step back” by widely rejecting his party.

The US president’s hardline aide, Stephen Miller, will begin as White House chief of staff on Monday. He will also meet with Dana White, CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, after offering him the job of press secretary.

“America took a giant step back in History with the results of the last Election,” Trump claimed in a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday morning, citing the sharp sell-off in global markets, fueled a rout of US tech stocks. “But have no fear, we will be back, BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”

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[–] 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

MAGA is backed into a corner, and desperate. They know that if there's an election in 2028, they're all going to prison, so they have two years to crush the population, and cancel elections. They were pretty excited about it, until they saw the result of the election. Now they know exactly how angry the American people are, and exactly how enormous their opposition truly is, and it's WAY bigger than they ever expected.

So he put PeeWee Himmler in charge, and he's going to try to crack down, but we aren't going to accept their nonsense any longer. If he and Todd Flintstone think they are going to use violence against American citizens and arrests of Democratic legislators and journalists to somehow stop elections, they've got another thing coming. The Dems have enough states that they can reach 270 electoral college votes themselves, so they can still elect a president without the red states.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    MAGA is backed into a corner, and desperate.

    Trump is suffering from narcissistic collapse, and I brought enough popcorn for everyone:

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  • Tbh, I remain unconvinced they are feeling at all cowed by the results of the election just now. I remember precisely what happened during Jan 6, because I watched it on like a dozen different streams and news channels live, and I also watched the depositions and hearings about it live, and I watched the fascists slowly redact their honest, alarmed, fearful immediate reactions into servile gaslighting.

    David Frum’s aphorism continues to be true and very on the nose:

    If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.

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