Don Moynihan: You can watch John Oliver's explanation of Schedule F here. Two points: 1) Engage in ideological purges is a central strategy to the GOP's governing doctrine now. 2) There is not equivalent energy in fighting back from the center or the left. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-public...

The future is terror. Funded by Heritage Foundation, the same group creating Project 2025, a GOP activist is snooping into the background of federal employees, creating a Trump enemies list. With Schedule F, they will fire those officials. apnews.com/article/trum...

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plansapnews.com Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homel...

We already knew that the Trump team had an enemies list of career officials they planned to fire based on their first term experiences. This is more wide-ranging. Last week I told a friend in the federal govt to delete his social media and start a Truth Social account. Only half-joking.

You can watch John Oliver's explanation of Schedule F here. Two points: 1) Engage in ideological purges is a central strategy to the GOP's governing doctrine now. 2) There is not equivalent energy in fighting back from the center or the left. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-public...

The Public Opposes Trump's Plans to Politicize Public Servicesdonmoynihan.substack.com And John Oliver provides a Project 2025 explainer for you to share

What we are seeing are the tactics used by people like James O' Keefe and Chris Rufo used on a mass scale - find someone saying something critical of Republicans, accuse them of bias, and try to get them fired. The key difference is that with Schedule F they really would be able to get them fired.

It is amazing that we've been so desensitized that this flies too far under the radar when folks ought to have their hair in flames. Some citizens have just turned themselves off for the benefit of their own sanity, but the cost will be that and more.

I don't know what equivalent energy would like like, but ideological purges are not really how we do things on the center-left. To match methods with the populist right would be to lose ourselves.

To be clear - I don’t think the center/left should adopt fascist tactics, but should be doing more to fight them.

Would be interested to hear specifics on the how of that, ideally things that wouldn't make us lose sleep.

Rhetorical engagement to increase salience with voters would be a start - how many people are aware of this?

It's really hard to make this work on the people in the Fox information bubble; they have some pretty dedicated curators to keep outside messaging out. If there are specifics that can work to try to reach them or to talk to undecideds, they should be considered at least, possibly tried.

Nobody! So many of my coworkers in the federal govt either don't know about it or tell me it will never happen

He said equivalent energy fighting back, he did not say equivalent methods

This is true, although it's hard to know what that means and I worry it will be parsed in the populist "I find it exhausting to be civilized and follow rules and be non-maximalist" sense.

Can't craft all skeets for all people, unfortunately

The center left /left is still trying to figure out what time it is and running the usual election tropes ... thoughts and prayers everyone

The Fascism is the point. If Trump can pull this off #Project2025 he will be forgiven all and any miss deeds by his right wing base. The Game is a foot 🦶

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