Thomas ZimmerAs America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”
For Die Zeit, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.
Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):
The Trumpists want escalation – and would love to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as pretext for a comprehensive crackdown on any “leftist” opposition, on that “vast domestic terror movement” Stephen Miller has raged about.
Do they really believe any of this nonsense?
Enter Russell Vought – a man who is driven by the idea that a radically anti-American “Left” has taken over the country and is destroying the nation. He is determined to use his detailed understanding of how the government works in a crusade to turn the state into an instrument of Trumpist domination.
Vought is singularly focused on bending the entire government machine to Trump’s will. He believes that any check on the power of Donald Trump, who Vought literally describes as a “gift of God,” is illegitimate. There is no line he doesn’t feel justified to cross.
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We usually take that sort of pronouncement as very strongly suggestive of serious mental illness.
We usually take that sort of pronouncement as very strongly suggestive of serious mental illness.