Hundreds of proposals in Project 2025 match Trump's policies
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Authoritarians don't have to believe in anything except their own power, or in the case of useful idiots, the power of the few over all others. That's why we have to be on guard against it from any ideological direction - left, right or otherwise.
It's interesting that you used the barrel of a gun metaphor. There is a complete ban on pornography in China, and it was Mao Zedong who coined "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Yeah ultimately its the governments ability to project force that coerces people into compliance hence the gun metaphor. And that ability literally comes from the mind control of the populace, specifically the useful idiots in the police and military. These people either believe in government authority or they are willing to accept a paycheck to do something they know is immoral.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_power_grows_out_of_the_barrel_of_a_gun