Trump is frightening. An insecure narcissist, a con, a snake oil salesman, a convicted fraudster and rapist, and a man listed millions of times in the Epstein Files, Trump is someone to fear and loathe. Most people understand this, but way too many people are not voicing their opposition to this insidious creature, either by ignoring the thing living under the bed or by just existing with the monster in the closet.
But here is another awful truth. As disgusting and immoral and anti-democratic as Trump was, is, and will be, he has accumulated a plethora of smarter people than he, who crave the same heinous power to not make America great again but rather to drive our democracy to its demise, replacing it with religious bigotry and religious nationalism (which is a blatant form of Fascism).
All of this has been easily achieved by the Republican majority in Congress, the body of legislators who, by the laws of the US Constitution, should be the “checks and balances” of a criminally motivated Executive Branch and those who help commit the crimes.
The list of evil doers is great when it comes to Trump’s buddies, but one man in particular, Russell Vought, has gone so far as to ignore laws he does not think will help him win his Christian nationalist agenda, or just pretend that the words in the Constitution have a different meaning when it comes to his agenda.
As head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Vought has a hand in how practically every tiny bud on the executive branch operates. With the possible exception of deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Vought arguably has the firmest grip on the levers of power in Washington. While Trump’s focus is trained on a handful of obsessions, Vought has the knowledge and skill set to turn his Christian nationalist ideology into policy — and transform those policies into reality. (MS NOW)
Russell Vought is a key architect of Project 2025, which is a conservative plan aimed at overhauling the federal government, and he has been involved in drafting its policies and transition playbook. (ap.org)
Accordingly, Trump’s OMB director has insisted that the president is allowed to hold back, or “impound,” funds that he doesn’t want to spend despite the 1974 Impoundment Control Act and Supreme Court precedent saying otherwise. (MS NOW)
Unchallenged by the spineless Republicans in power, we the people can only watch as Vought pronounces this a Christian Sharia Nation, and step by step and inch by insidious inch, Vought remakes this nation into the United States of the Heritage Foundation. Trump is the originator of the parasites, and his mutants are infecting all of us!
