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Ruth Ben-Ghiat reminds us today of what she wrote this past May:
“The fascists believed that you have to destroy to create, and this is what a second Trump administration would do. This ethos of creative destruction has long been espoused by extremist Steve Bannon and is now normalized by suit-wearing subversives such as Vought."
#Trump #Project2025 #Vought #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cruelty #RussellVought
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Project 2025 as Authoritarian Takeover; Videos Nov 17 and 22 Q&As
And a link to a Brookings Institute event on democracy I am doing on Dec. 4Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)
"The bottom line is that all of the pieces of Project 2025 that we’ve discussed for the last year are in play. We’ve known that here, even though Project 2025 seemed to fall off the radar screen after Trump's ersatz denial. Now it’s clear that all of the horribles are on the table, everything from the end of the Department of Education to the discontinuation of the weather warnings NOAA provides."
#Trump #Project2025 #Vought #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cruelty #RussellVought
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"Vought is a proponent of a powerful executive and of restructuring our institutions to facilitate a government that veers toward the monarchical and away from the democratic."
#Trump #Project2025 #Vought #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cruelty #RussellVought
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As Joyce Vance reminds us, before Trump made Bill Barr his attorney general, Barr sent out a memo "that was more or less an audition tape for the job he ultimately got." "In it, Barr argued in favor of what had previously been a fringe theory of a powerful 'unitary executive,' in other words, a president able to consolidate power at the expense of the other two branches as a very powerful leader."
#Trump #Project2025 #Vought #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cruelty
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Project 2025: It's On (Predictably)
Before Bill Barr became Donald Trump’s third attorney general, he circulated a memo that was more or less an audition tape for the job he ultimately got.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"To the surprise of no one, Trump's claim during the election that he knew nothing about Project 2025 was a lie. There is almost no one better positioned to advocate for the goals of Project 2025 than Vought—both because of his key role in drafting the agenda and because of the powerful position he will assume at OMB."
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"Trump released a flurry of nominations on Friday evening—apparently hoping that Americans would not notice that several of the nominees share a connection to Project 2025 and Fox 'news' programs.
The most significant nomination is Russell T. Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Project2025 #Vought #ChristianNationalism #fascism #cruelty
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A key ally to former President Donald Trump detailed plans to 🆘 deploy the military in response to domestic unrest,
💥defund the Environmental Protection Agency
and ⚠️ put career civil servants “in trauma”
in a series of previously unreported speeches that provide a sweeping vision for a second Trump term.
In private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, #Russell #Vought, who served as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, described his work crafting legal justifications so that military leaders or government lawyers would not stop Trump’s executive actions.
He said the plans are a response to a “Marxist takeover” of the country; likened the moment to 1776 and 1860, when the country was at war or on the brink of it;
and said the timing of Trump’s candidacy was a “gift of God.”
Vought does not hide his agenda or shy away from using extreme rhetoric in public.
But the apocalyptic tone and hard-line policy prescriptions in the two private speeches go further than his earlier pronouncements.
As OMB director, Vought sought to use Trump’s 2020 “#ScheduleF” executive order to strip away job protections for nonpartisan government workers.
But he has never spoken in such pointed terms about demoralizing federal workers to the point that they don’t want to do their jobs.
He has spoken in broad terms about undercutting independent agencies but never spelled out sweeping plans to defund the EPA and other federal agencies.
Vought’s plans track closely with Trump’s campaign rhetoric about using the military against domestic protesters
or what Trump has called the “enemy within.”
Trump’s desire to use the military on U.S. soil recently prompted his longest-serving chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. #John #Kelly, to speak out,
saying Trump “certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.”
Other policies mentioned by Vought dovetail with Trump’s plans,
such as embracing a wartime footing on the southern border
and rolling back transgender rights.
Agenda 47, the campaign’s policy blueprint, calls for revoking President Joe Biden’s order expanding gender-affirming care for transgender people;
Vought uses even more extreme language, decrying the “transgender sewage that’s being pumped into our schools and institutions”
and referring to gender-affirming care as “chemical castration.”
Since leaving government, Vought has reportedly remained a close ally of the former president.
Speaking in July to undercover journalists posing as relatives of a potential donor, Vought said Trump had “blessed” the Center for Renewing America and was “very supportive of what we do,” CNN reported.
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Videos Reveal Trump Adviser’s “Shadow” Plan for Second Administration
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.ProPublica