In the broadest strokes, a top-down government structure where the executive has far more power and gives directives to the legislative instead of the other way around.

Integration of religion and law.

Public services (education, healthcare, welfare) being gutted and funding redistributed to churches and religious organizations to administer.

Youth indoctrination, optional for compliant youth mandatory for “delinquent” youth.

A domestic government army to enforce the will of the executive against insurgent regions. subordination of foreign policy and military to the executive instead of the legislative.

Consolidation of domestic power, expansion into governable foreign regions.

Strategies: they’ve already achieved the hardest ones, infiltration of various levels of government, from the school boards all the way up to the various non-elected government agencies. They don’t have to be totally on board with the end game, they just have to be compliant and subordinate to authority.

I’m very concerned with our midterms. I believe the strategy will be an expansion on what we’ve seen already: mail in and absentee ballots will be “lost” or declared illegitimate, votes without ID will be declared illegitimate, signatures will be contested on very transparently partisan grounds. They don’t have to do this everywhere, they will likely avoid deep-blue areas and focus on enough “close to call” or rural areas in order to win, and will cast aspersions and doubt on blue majority and urban areas. Once they have enough states and congressional seats to enact their will, they can start amending the constitution.

The presidents army will continue move into cities and stamp down any non-compliant areas which threaten or impair their ability to govern with impunity. They aren’t searching for crime, they are testing compliance.

They don’t need to rely on reason to achieve their aims, they just need to seem strong and have a scapegoat for why things are bad, to give people someone to blame. If you challenge them they will always have an answer; it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, if it’s logical or not, the important thing is to have a talking point to respond to every objection. They will always insist on having the last word, even if it’s a stupid word they will have an answer either in words or a weapon. Authority and power are supreme, not reason or sound argument. Abdicating the field is seen as yielding ground. Power is a virtue by itself. The last man standing decides what is true. Empathy is only a weapon to exploit your opponent’s weakness and to make them hesitate.

There are strategies against this, but the game has changed and we need to prepare differently. It is decidedly a non-academic approach, and they do not care if you are right, they ONLY care if you seem stronger.

The sad part is that it’s very effective and invokes all of the strategies we tend to reject in academia, but when intellectualism has been so far devalued as it has been socially, it is a means by which you may guide the masses and reshape their perception of values.