Democrats on the budget committee pointed to Vought – a co-author of Project 2025 and a proponent of swingeing budgetary cuts and the consolidation of executive authority – as a source of inspiration for the funding freeze memo.
Is there any more specific information on what his plans are when in power?
Look, the USSR had its merits, as you mentioned and I'm sure there are various AES systems working well in the current world. I know because I live in one. But there is prevalent tankie behavior throughout Lemmy, concentrated mostly in your instance and Hexbear, where people do actually defend dictators, simply because they called themselves communists (or in the case of Putin because... USA bad therefore Russia good?). They defend them, cognizant of the harm they have caused. Tankies are.the epitome of 'the ends justify the means'. But when people defend authoritarian regimes, we need to call them out and fight them, regardless of professed ideology.
When someone does tankie things, it is valid to call them a tankie. Quacks like a duck and all that...
Also, I had to google 'AES communism' to figure out wtf you were talking about. American Education Service? Advanced Encryption Standard? AES the energy company? Define your acronyms and abbreviations, everybody. AES stands for 'actually existing socialism' in this context.
Authoritarians gotta reinforce the hierarchy somehow