Trump's dictatorship plans

Thom Hartmann -  Last week The New York Times published a partial exposé of Donald Trump’s plans for his second administration. It involved basically turning America into Russia or Hungary, where the president becomes the singular center of federal power, eclipsing Congress and the courts.

For example, the Times writes:

Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control.

How would this play out? The FCC has power over the internet, as well as all broadcast media in America; it’s how the Trump administration killed Net Neutrality and gave the giant Internet Service Providers the legal right to track everything you do and say on the web right down to the last keystroke of your posts and your every email. Thus, President Trump could mandate that any media critical of him — including online media like Daily Kos, Raw Story, or Common Dreams — must be heavily “regulated,” just like in Russia and Hungary. And he could do this in the first weeks of his presidency, to tamp down the ability to organize protests around his other fascist policies.