Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.

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.

  • Glide
    411·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • noahm@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      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.