A few days ago David Corn at his Our Land Newsletter (subscribe here) offered up a preview of what a JD Vance presidency would be like with this:
Here’s how it starts:
My fellow Americans,
It’s four weeks since the passing of President Donald Trump, our dear leader. He sacrificed so much for us, working day and night, every day of the week, to make America great again...and then again. If he had one fault—and I’m not saying he did—it was that he cared too much for us and not enough for himself. The jackals in the media who remain at large keep demanding an explanation for his death. But we will not insult his memory by releasing irrelevant and private records. I can tell you this: He died for us. Who will ever forget that day we said goodbye to our president? The full military parade. Tanks on Pennsylvania as far as the eye could see. The F-35 fighter jets in the sky. More than 100,000 troops in the nation’s capital. A new generation of generals snapping their salutes to their fallen commander-in-chief. The biggest crowd ever on the National Mall. And the journey from the White House to Trump Arlington Cemetery.
It’s no secret that a vote for Trump could well be a vote for a President Vance. It doesn’t even require Trump to die in office — he just has to become too incapacitated to carry out the duties of his office beyond the abilities of those around him to cover it up. For all the GOP and media talking points that Harris “hasn’t been sufficiently vetted” and people “don’t know enough about her”, it’s Vance that’s the real issue. David Corn has done a remarkable job of imagining what a Vance administration could do. To continue with an excerpt:
...We will continue to expand the construction of Departure Camps, as our Criminal Migrant Collection/Expulsion Program expands. The military will continue its Subversion Suppression exercises, as well as maintain the Intrusion Zero Program at the border, where we routed enemy troops to create the Zone of Safety. The roll-out of the across-the-board Trump Tariffs will proceed, and we will continue to root out the bureaucrats in government agencies who are disseminating fake numbers on inflation, unemployment, and wages, seeking to dispirit the nation. We will maintain the Keep America Growing program that removes anti-business ideologues who promote fake science from government positions in which they use their power to stymie energy production and other business development. The White House Make America Healthy Again working group will continue developing a health care plan to replace the failed programs of the past, and it’s expected to release its findings sometime in the future.
I am pleased to report that on June 14, the birthday of President Trump, the MAGA Loyalty Oath—which was declared constitutional by seven Supreme Court justices—will go into effect for all federal workers and members of the military. We encourage states to follow suit. That day will also become a national holiday. And I will fly to Moscow next month, as President Trump planned to do himself, to meet with President Putin and attend the ceremony marking the end of the fighting in Ukraine and the peaceful addition of the new territories to Russia. I will not attend the upcoming NATO summit, but we will maintain our observer status. I have instructed the Justice Department to continue its Enemies Within investigation and prosecutions...
The rest of the policies laid out in this are all too believable given Republican control of the the Federal Government under Vance — if anything it’s pretty much straight extrapolation based on what they are actually saying right now.
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What Corn lays out in this (so far) piece of fiction is all too plausible, given what we’ve learned from Project 2025, and watching/listening to what is right out in the open at Trump rallies and what Vance et. al. have been saying. Corn has done a masterful job of capturing the Orwellian language that a Vance administration would use to frame its agenda. We have been seeing the sanctimonious doublethink and doublespeak coming from the right wing for years; the scenario Corn imagines here is barely an exaggeration.
There’s additional material at the link that’s well worth reading, such as why Trump and Russia still matters, a video clip for some tension relief, an upcoming zoom session for subscribers, the Dumbass Comment of the Week, and responses to reader mail.
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