Daily Take: Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
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| 0:58.1 | slash Tom. Plenary power. The final step in Trump's American autocracy. The end game for Trump, |
| 1:08.4 | Vance, Nome, and Bondi is coming into clearer focus, and it's nearly a one-for-one step-by-step implementation of Nazi jurist and philosopher Carl Schmidt's ideas that created and sustained the early Third Reich. |
| 1:23.7 | Vance has even gone so far as to directly quote Schmidt. |
| 1:27.2 | The concepts aren't particularly |
| 1:28.5 | complicated, and it's easy to see how Trump and his enablers are implementing them. |
| 1:33.2 | First, Schmidt taught, there is no law, there is just power. Democracy is a messy anachronism |
| 1:40.0 | in which whomever controls the political majority inevitably imposes their will on everybody else, |
| 1:46.3 | stifling individuality and freedom both in thought and behavior. |
| 1:50.6 | The cure for this messiness of democracy, he argued, |
| 1:55.3 | is a strong leader who transcends politics, understands the people, and reflects their true desires, |
| 2:05.0 | defends their racial and religious identity, ignores inconvenient laws, |
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