Originally published at: ‘Put Them in Trauma’: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
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Nazis. Nazis who are fully aware that deep down they are sad, resentful little mediocrities. But even mediocrities can inflict tremendous damage if allowed near the levers of power.
I’m glad the Republican party has made the decision to actually run on the vision of hell they have planned for America. Nobody but a damned fool would claim they were misled by the ‘hidden’ evil of a deceitful campaign.
Should the cult somehow win this election (they won’t) there will be no denying what the majority of voters prefer (at least the majority of ‘swing state’ voters). I do not expect, in that case, that those voters will accept responsibility for their votes once the consequences of that vote become the reality of our lives. They will always blame the crime on the victims, never on the perps because they are the perps.
Orwellian, opportunistic, theocratic, and delusional.
Hate and fear are great motivators.
We’re already in Trauma and have been for nine years with tiny intermittent breaks that are snatched away from us as soon as they materialize. Gonna have to toughen up and stop thinking things should be normal. No way that’s going to happen.
“a gift from God” is a nice sounding description of a reason he pulled out of his butt. Those Gott Mit Uns belt buckles would be a smash hit at the trump store.
Planning to ruin peoples minds and lives for doing what was heretofore universally accepted as a regular job?
‘Feral’ is too polite a term for these assholes and their brutality.
Where the fuck do they come from?
Who is financing his endeavors? Interesting that Russell Vought moves Leonard Leo to the left side of the equation.
Defund the EPA. A gift to industry from the Pro-Poison GOP.
“We are here in the year of 2024, a year that very well [could] — and I believe it will — rival 1776 and 1860 for the complexity and the uncertainty of the forces arrayed against us. God put us here for such a time as this.”
God isn’t an American. And doesn’t think you’re special.
These anti-democratic asshats, these penny-ante creeps thinking up new ways to game the system to install a theocracy – they lose elections, and they crawl back into their think tanks and come up with new ways to screw up everything. They win elections, and they screw up the SCOTUS for a generation. How is this ever going to end?
You know, most of us are down with the whole idea that we should work together for the collective good. And maybe we could, if it wasn’t for these relentless assholes with their endless need to be dramatic about everything and run around with their knickers in a twist every time somebody wants to have policies that help someone less fortunate than them.
The founders made a major error in thinking people would abide by the rules and act halfway civil when they didn’t get to oppress whoever they wanted.
So f’ing weird, these people. They live in an alternate universe of fear and hatred. I agree with the red-state zone idea, though. Good riddance you freaks.
Squirrels must be fighting over this guy.
The radial racist white always existed but now has gained a shroud of respectability and massive funding through Donald Trump.
What sets Vought apart from most of his fellow conservative activists is that he accuses powerful organizations on the right of being complicit in the current system of government, singling out the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, the conservative and libertarian legal network co-chaired by activist Leonard Leo.
“Let’s you and him fight!”
One of the major saving graces about people like Vought is that for them, everyone who even slightly diverges from the “orthodoxy” is considered an enemy. So they readily turn on each other and start backbiting and blasting those who would be their allies. It’s hard to build a movement on shifting sand.
Very reminiscent of the Emo Phillips joke about religion:
Vought has a pretty good chance of ending the way Ceausescu did, or Mussolini.
But seriously, do any of these Nazis understand what happened to Germany when it pulled this sort of stuff? Do they see the state Lebanon is in, still? Syria?
Where are their wits?
If they seize this country’s freedoms from the people, as they threaten to, and attack protestors with military force, they will initiate a conflict they cannot finish.
I wonder what a legalist would say about the status of laws under a system in which the executive had abrogated the Constitution.
They underestimate and stereotype liberals, democrats and anyone not them.
Words of advice for them.
- They will not like the world they are attempting to create. Not one iota.
- Don’t make us stop being nice. They will not like us when we are not nice.
How do you know that a dimwitted clown is also a traitor to everything decent that this country has ever aspired to? It’s his insistence that God told him to do it. God didn’t tell him anything: his greed and hatred for this country told him to do it. He just thinks that Trump is God.
Maybe Vought would do well experiencing a little trauma himself, administered by a 2 X 4.
This. They get so up in themselves being some kind of super hero legends that they lose sight of what they are surrounded by. Actual humans, with functioning brains, who are a lot smarter than them. And they have no knowledge of history whatsoever. People fighting for what’s right and good fight a lot harder.