Lots of talk about the OMB because of the utterly illegal, unconstitutional funding freeze it issued.
A reminder that Russell Vought, the guy Trump wants to lead the agency, is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will.
There is no line he doesn’t feel justified to cross.
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/meet-the-ideologue-of-the-post-constitutional
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Vought will be singularly focused on bending the entire government machine to Trump’s will. He steadfastly believes that any check on the president’s power – on the power of Donald Trump, specifically, who Vought literally describes as a “gift of God” – is illegitimate.
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Vought may look like a boring bureaucrat and can, at times, sound like a technocrat. But he is a committed ideologue, convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule, where people like him get to dominate the public square and define who belongs.
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Russel Vought’s ideology of “radical constitutionalism” captures the defining sensibility on the Trumpist Right: The “Left” has command of America, all that is noble has been destroyed, nothing short of a radical “counter-revolution” can now save the nation.
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Vought’s case is emblematic of the Right’s trajectory more broadly: From – at least rhetorically – claiming “small government” principles and “constitutional conservatism” to an ever more explicit, aggressive desire to mobilize the coercive powers of the state against the “enemy within.”
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The key task, as Vought sees it, is to take over government and turn it into a tool that serves only two purposes: To enact revenge against the “woke” Left – and impose White Christian patriarchal domination on the country.
And he knows how to wield OMB as his instrument.
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/meet-the-ideologue-of-the-post-constitutional
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