Inside the think tank speech that foretold Trump’s obsession with The Insurrection Act

Описание: When OMB Director Russell Vought was working on Project 2025 - the blueprint for seizing power in a second Trump presidency - he spoke about how his think tank was building a rationale for invoking The Insurrection Act to deploy the military on American streets. Now, Project 2025 is here. National Guard troops have been deployed to five American cities - and worse could be on the horizon as Donald Trump and his inner circle have begun labeling a wide range of people and behaviors as “insurrectionist" in recent weeks. What we are witnessing is a real-time test of whether our democracy can survive a government that sees its own citizens as the enemy.

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