1) Marginalize the most vulnerable and enact policies to target them (non-white immigrants, LGBTQ+ community) - check
2) Demonize education leaders, professors, and thought leaders (such as the free Palestine and BLM movements), taking away their right to protest - check
3) Create a new agency to patrol government and locate any potential threats (DOGE) - check
4) Dismantle existing government oversight via the new agency - check
5) Create communication blackouts between agencies - check
6) Create an economic plan that isolates the country and demonizes trade partners - check
7) Remove the country from global institutions regarding health, security, and others - check
8) Implement economic plan which includes massive tariffs, creating massive supply chain issues and artificial scarcity - ongoing
9) Observe the economic fallout, creating a panic in the markets and full blown crisis - ongoing
10) Use the crisis to further double down on the above points - ongoing
11) Blame the crisis on foreign or domestic actors
12) Declare a national emergency and/or martial law
13) Suspend the Constitution and other laws
14) Utilize the newly trained domestic security apparatus to target actual citizens
15) Formalize the new nationalist government as the world watches