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They're effectively accomplishing Trump's goals for him. Trump hates the blue states as much as Iran hates the United States.
I think you underestimate how much Trump absolutely despises red states as well. He just hates poor people. He says shit his base will like. But have you seen the absolute destruction to Texas, Georgia, etc with datacenters? He doesn't fucking care. The only group he gives material benefits to are the ICE agents terrorizing cities.
In fact, for Trump, ICE agents are just more poor people to rob.
It's things like this that confirm to me that Trump and most of his administration are not true ideological fascist. Ideological fascist would be sure to maintain some level of support from their ground troops. Things like this show me that there are some ideological fascist within the admin; but, Trump himself, is entirely focused on things that benefit him directly. Trump is enjoying stealing billions. If doing fascist shit helps him do that (and it does) he will. If it actually causes him some personal sacrifice he is not going to do that to obtain some "fascist objectives". It's why he doesn't care if ICE is successful as long as it's implementation is exploitable for his own personal profit.
It's why when people treat him like Hitler it's not quite fair. Hitler had real ideology he wanted to implement and was not only guided by increasing his wealth. Trump uses ideology and propaganda specifically to benefit himself. He is a "crypto fascist" that has built the foundations for an ideological fascist to take power in.
It limits this rise in fascism to an extent that a true ideological fascist wouldn't. It's also worrying to imagine a real ideological fascist and white supremacist like Tucker Carlson or a puppet fascist like JD Vance being in power. They would be smart enough to fill the pockets of their brown shirts.