There's an endless supply of lawless and corrupt Repub cult followers to choose from, should have no problem finding the folks they need.
'Lawless and corrupt': Expert lays out how Trump’s plan is 'straight out of the history of authoritarianism'
During a Sunday morning panel, MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin referenced a recent Axios report by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, in which they exclusively report ex-President Donald Trump "allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024."
The New York University professor continued, "So it's not even just all that, it is the method. Because autocrats need a compliant bureaucracy to implement their repression quickly, and so they need a lawless and corrupt people who are not gonna have pangs of conscience. That's what happened the first time, he's learned from that. There were too many civil servants who actually had ethics. Too many lawyers. So this time, he's not making that mistake. And it's like, it's like seeing the corruption chapter of my book come to life, because I wrote about this, that you must have lawless and corrupt people in government in order to have an autocracy."
'Lawless and corrupt': Expert lays out how Trump’s plan is 'straight out of the history of authoritarianism'
During a Sunday morning panel, MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin referenced a recent Axios report by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, in which they exclusively report ex-President Donald Trump "allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024."
The New York University professor continued, "So it's not even just all that, it is the method. Because autocrats need a compliant bureaucracy to implement their repression quickly, and so they need a lawless and corrupt people who are not gonna have pangs of conscience. That's what happened the first time, he's learned from that. There were too many civil servants who actually had ethics. Too many lawyers. So this time, he's not making that mistake. And it's like, it's like seeing the corruption chapter of my book come to life, because I wrote about this, that you must have lawless and corrupt people in government in order to have an autocracy."