The Daily Blast
A Top Trump Ally Just Revealed the Horrors He’ll Unleash on “Day One”
As a leading MAGA figure telegraphs what's coming under Trump, the author of a new piece on the election results argues that voters supported him in the full knowledge of the cruelties he's vowed to unleash.
After Donald Trump won the election, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, who is becoming a senior figure in MAGA-world, declared on Fox News that he has a big mandate to govern exactly as he campaigned, while specifically listing what’s coming. This is alarming, since Trump campaigned relentlessly on a platform of explicit threats of authoritarian retribution and violence. We talked to David Kurtz, executive editor of Talking Points Memo and author of a good new piece on the election results. He reflects on how sobering it is that voters chose Trump in full awareness of the cruelties he’s planning to unleash—and discusses the immense task that lies ahead in containing the damage.
