What is Trump’s Goal?

            Why is he pushing all the limits, breaking all the norms, making everybody frightened, ignoring Congress, purging the FBI, supporting Musk as he invades Treasury and riddles USAID, making absurd cabinet appointments, and – most important to Trump personally – lying to rewrite the history of January 6, 2021?

            Republican politicians are standing by, Democrats are befuddled, and we the people are watching silently as our nation is being taken over by a dictator.

            Some naïve, misguided people say this behavior is just “Trump being Trump”, or they say that he is simply negotiating to make America great again. He thinks the way to negotiate is to start by taking an extreme, even ridiculously extreme, position. He doesn’t care that the tactic makes people angry and hurts any future negotiations.

            Anyway, negotiation is not what he is really doing, or why he is doing it. There is a different Plan, and what we are witnessing is the early stage of its implementation. He is establishing his power, validating his supporters, and taking over as much as he can without another Jan 6 style insurrection. When the planned-for crisis comes, and it will come because it is an essential part of the Plan. When it comes, he’ll have everything in place needed to take over. He’ll be able to take over because he will have made sure there is no-one else who can. Or maybe even because he’s needed to prevent a worse outcome.

            Dismantling the FBI is a critical part of the Plan, an essential part of what makes the Plan so obvious. Autocracies cannot tolerate effective, independent law enforcement; the FBI has to go.

All this, I know, sounds like another conspiracy theory, and it is. But just because it’s a conspiracy theory doesn’t mean there isn’t a real conspiracy. It’s real because there is no other explanation for what he is doing.

            Well, one alternative theory is that Trump is just stupid. A lot of what he is doing appears stupid, and is actually stupid. But whoever his advisors are, they are not stupid. There are smart powers behind the throne. Some stupid actions and stupid appointments are part of the Plan, needed to fool us folks, to keep Trump engaged, and for show and profit when the autocracy blossoms into reality. And it will; that’s the Plan. That’s the goal.