Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.
I’d generally call his vision an Americanized version of fascism, and it seems to be shared by a broad swath of the Republican leadership and billionaire donors.
This article is an important read. Vought is behind a large portion of Project 2025, and assisted Trump in finding ways around our system in his last term. He is clever and dangerous. Trump is keeping distance from him and the project during his campaign, but you can be sure he’ll be right back in Trump’s cabinet if he wins in the fall.
The Trump campaign has distanced itself from the extensive planning. Campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said in a statement, “Unless a message is coming directly from President Trump or an authorized member of his campaign team, no aspect of future presidential staffing or policy announcements should be deemed official.”
I am darkly amused that that chucklefuck shares a name with the extremely evil megacorp from The Boys
As seen on Vought +
I strongly suspect Biden’s campaign to try and pin Trump on supporting or disowning Project 2025 as part of an October surprise.
It’s not a smart move if his campaign maintains distance as they’ve been. It’ll only look like baseless accusations in the media, no matter how true.
The article is great, but I hate this title.
“We are living in a post-Constitutional time,” Vought wrote in a seminal 2022 essay, which argued that the left has corrupted the nation’s laws and institutions.
The “post-constitutional” world in the title is the way Russ Vought describes the current political landscape. It is not, as the title insinuates, something he used to describe the future he aims to create.
This guy is a fascist nut job with a ton of insane ideologies. We don’t need dishonest titles to make him look bad.
But the term is his, and it’s what he’s using to rationalize his plans. He’s not declaring that he/Trump are declaring a post-constitutional doctrine, but that we’re already living in one and thus he’s justified in his radical reinterpretations of it.
Ah yes facism with extra “freedom” for the stupid
The Constitution, like “the” bible, is just another thing the cons likely never read anyway.
