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The thing is -- the motivation of the Hawleys and Cruzes and DeSantises and that entire countless rabble of wannabe successors to the Don is absolutely to inherit, not a functional civil service and government of laws that would constrain their rapacity, but a turn-key fascist compliant organization of servile myrmidons instantly responsive to their slightest whim.

And their base actually wants what Trump was promising just the other day -- summary executions of criminals the police already know are guilty, occupation of truculent municipalities by nationalized military units operating at the direction of the President, and of course roundups of millions of "homeless" persons to internment camps.

So between what their base wants, and what they want for themselves after the big guy has finally moved out of the way, it is inconceivable that Republicans in office anywhere would offer any assistance to whatever agency Horatii may be left trying to defend the last bridges against the totalitarian onslaught.

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