DONALD TRUMP HAS made no secret of his desire for revenge.

On the campaign trail, he joked about being a dictator on “day one” in office, pledged to jail journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes who he felt had wronged him.

Now, just days after he secured a second term in the White House, Congress is already moving to hand a resurgent Trump administration a powerful cudgel that it could wield against ideological opponents in civil society.

Up for a potential fast-track vote next week in the House of Representatives, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, also known as H.R. 9495, would grant the secretary of the Treasury Department unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.”

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    10 days ago

    He really did go through all that shaming and embattlement. Think of the stress and the assassination attempt. There should be a price paid to the victor when the opponent he overcame would have done to him even more than he already went through. He will bring the fight to the Deep State. Listen to the actual policy decisions.

    Just for a couple of examples, tell me you don’t you think that the policy for the IGs to be physically separated from who they are regulating and for Federal institutions to be decentralized from the NW corridor aren’t great ideas in so many ways.

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      Why doesn’t he just use the presidential weather machine against his enemies? Wouldn’t he get the keys to it during transition?

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      They can’t talk to who they’re regulating and he’s going to break up any coherent structure… and that’s good??

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        The wealthy love periods when our economy collapses, it gives them the opportunity to buy all of the assets from everyone down below for pennies on the dollar. Five years later they’ve made 20x what they spent and can sell that back to the poor schmucks for twice what it’s worth.