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Because reality has stopped these people from implementing their plan already? That’s not how it works under authoritarians. The cruelty will be the point. Any airline who complains will get hit with fines or shuttered. They will shut down airports in democrat areas and keep the republican ones open.
They don’t give two shits about reality when they can just have their media lie about it.
They can try as much as they like. The airports are still getting shut down. Airlines will bleed money. There is no way out of that if ATC go on strike, illegal or not. You bargain with them or you fail.
And yeah, they do get stopped by reality all the time. They tried to fire a whole lot of people in the federal government. Then realized that a lot of those people absolutely must do certain jobs, like oversight of nuclear weapons stockpiles.
Just after the election, I argued with someone trying to make that same point about Project 2025. I argued that because of reality getting in the way, they couldn't implement half of it. Guess where the Project 2025 Tracker has been stuck at for months? I actually didn't expect to be so literally correct, but that's what happened.
Yes, reality matters no matter how authoritarian the system is. Trump can no more do this than proclaim that Stephen Miller can jump off the Washington Monument and fly (no matter how much I might enjoy seeing that happen).
They let go most (a bit over 70%) of NRC Regulators. That is a very specialized job and requires very experienced people in them. One nuclear reactor has a major safety incident, well, there may have to be some shut downs for a while... which will cause an issue for power supply. Those data centers don't power themselves.
We will just have to agree to disagree and see who’s right in a few months or years.
Good Luck with that. The major airports that have the heaviest flights are in the states that create the most commerce and generate the most money. The Donor States.