General Discussion

Also, if it matters, them.us is a highly-regarded, well-funded Conde-Nast publication.

I'm not familiar with the author, but the sources cited are The Heritage Fdn and the Project 2025 crowd...you know, the folks actually making policy in this country, despite little speed bumps like "laws" and "The Constitution."

Some of us in the T part of the rainbow have been watching as the rightwing has been paying groundwork for this move. (That squeak you hear is the Overton Window cracking a bit wider.)

There are executive orders, policies, databases,and funding set up to make this happen, and some state-level laws in place, which is how trumpists have field-tested some of their most vile policies in the past before rolling them out more broadly.