Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025, believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn down the system. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵 - ThreadSky

thomaszimmer.bsky.social • 103 days ago

Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right

Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025, believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn down the system.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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thomaszimmer.bsky.social•103 days ago

I wrote about Russel Vought’s ideology of “radical constitutionalism” that 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.

thomaszimmer.bsky.social•103 days ago

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.”

thomaszimmer.bsky.social•103 days ago

Russell Vought will be back as the director of the Office of Management and Budget. In that position, he will be singularly focused on bending the entire machine to Trump’s will. That was how he interpreted his mission the first time around, and he has only radicalized since.

thomaszimmer.bsky.social•103 days ago

Key to understanding Vought’s worldview is the idea that the constitutional order - and with it the “natural” order itself - has been destroyed: The revolution has already happened, “the Left” won. Therefore, conservatives categorically err when they try to preserve what is no more.

thomaszimmer.bsky.social•103 days ago

This revolution, Vought says, started over a century ago with Woodrow Wilson. Progressivism, Marxism, even communism and fascism - it is all the same: Ideologies that seek to remake the world in defiance of the natural order through totalitarian government intervention.

thomaszimmer.bsky.social•103 days ago

Power now lies with a “permanent ruling class” of leftist elites who control all major institutions of American life and especially the “woke and weaponized” agencies of the state. In order to defeat them, conservatives must become “radical constitutionalists” - and take radical action.

tonedead.bsky.social•103 days ago

He looks like a real bag of fun

bethlpdx.bsky.social•103 days ago

Ugh.

hammys-howl.bsky.social•103 days ago

Yes. Absolutely. Can’t believe America voted this kind of insanity into the White House.

celluosedreams.bsky.social•103 days ago

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canicallyoukate.bsky.social•102 days ago

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judy4democracy.bsky.social•102 days ago

How far do you think they will get with their project?

blessamysheart.bsky.social•103 days ago

I hate his face.

philbeee.bsky.social•102 days ago

He looks like a fun, good-humored and all-over warm-hearted guy to be around, doesn't he? 🤢

blessamysheart.bsky.social•102 days ago

Never pleasured a single person in his life

dmongoven.bsky.social•103 days ago

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maybelle2.bsky.social•102 days ago

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bookerator.bsky.social•103 days ago

What happens to people to make them so hateful, so awful, so evil, ugly inside--so anti-American, so deluded, so inhumane? Where does that originate? I ask the same about Stephen Miller--that dude is just pure abomination.

danielmarlowe.bsky.social•103 days ago

Is this all because he can’t get laid?

thisismari.at•103 days ago

Please fix the spelling of Barack in the literal first sentence of your otherwise excellent post.

bdwildeman.bsky.social•103 days ago

He’s about to find out that most people just wanted cheaper eggs.

philbeee.bsky.social•102 days ago

Much preferrable outcome to the cheaper-eggs people finding out that Cheetolini & Cohorts wanted something quite different.

suspersists.bsky.social•103 days ago

Thank you for posting this. I’ve been screaming about this man for a year. I pray there are people out there who are willing to fight him.

journeytotheeast.bsky.social•102 days ago

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donlinn.bsky.social•102 days ago

This guy is big trouble and flying mostly under the radar for now. Thanks for shining some light on him.

ballzak83.bsky.social•102 days ago

The men we just put into power want to be the founding fathers of something monstrous

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