Vought, Trump and this Christian Nationalist movement will falter like Prohibition. These people are desperately trying to hold back time. They’re like the little boy who put his finger in the dike to hold back the tide. Women will always have abortions for medical or private reasons. There will always be homosexuals and transgender people. Religious freedom and freedom from religion will always prevail. Woman and people of color will never take a back seat again. Mankind will move forward and there’s no going back. They are delusional.
I doubt I’ll see it through especially if their new budget goes through. Cuts to Medicare and to Veteran’s medical services-we elderly and former supporters of the country’s Armed Forces might as well rot away in illness and poverty. A gun will not do me any good at this point. But, for whatever you have in mind, be safe and keep your address private.
But if someone self-identifies that way, who am I to say otherwise? That's what I've never quite understood about this notion that they should not be called Christians.
"Christians" or "claim to be Christians" work. As for whether or not you dare to say otherwise, go directly to the book of Galatians in the New Testament, chapter 5, verses 22-23: "the fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such there is no law."
If they accept as their leader a man who manifests exactly the opposite of every one of those, then I think it's fair to assume that they are worshipping an orange calf rather than God. (See: golden calf in the Old Testament)
I can’t read everything I want to, so articles like these I appreciate very much!
I see several powerful operating (and potentially opposing) factions in this new government:
We’ve got the Project 25 group with their anti-left authoritarianism as per this article.
The Christian nationalists who are a powerful entity, but not with all players.
JFK jr who none of the new elites actually care about.
Layered-over by the powerful tech-bros like Curtis Yarvin and Bilaji Srinivasan. These quiet individuals have enormous influence in the Whitehouse, and are playing their own game of an AI/crypto future where the intellectual elite rule.
I wonder how trump fits in. I used to think he was just a means to an end, but with his latest move to ally the US with putin, I’m struggling to work it all out.
What I really hope is that all these giant egos crash and burn.
"His faith remains at the core of his life and politics. Mr. Vought calls himself a Christian nationalist."
That's not true faith. No matter what y'all think of Christianity, that ain't it.
He's using a word that doesn't belong to him. If Jesus were alive today, he'd be maligned by these pasty white dudes every time he marched his dark-skinned ass in the streets with the most oppressed of us.
The only times Jesus would associate himself with a guy like Vought would be for the same reason he pulled Matthew, a hated tax collector, into his circle of apostles. But Vought would never join him. Joining him would interfere with his emperor and his empire, which will soon enough blow up in his pasty white face because y'all are rising up to stop this shiz. Vought is Rome. He'd probably pay for the crucifix himself if he had to.
The only faith Vought has is in the male patriarchy and the American money machine.
(I'm a pasty white dude, so I get to say "pasty white dudes", and I'm okay with anyone else saying it.)
As things go south, as they assuredly will, Vought is going to peer into the undercarriage of a bus. The same goes for Musk. Trump will claim he knew nothing about what was happening or that these two went rogue. Journalists need to reference Truman when they ask Trump where the buck stops. And "I didn't know" doesn't wash because the fact is that he "didn't care."
It really, really ticks me off when he plays the "I didn't know about that" game. Members of Congress can be even worse as they run away from reporters in the halls of Congress. "I haven't seen that." "I haven't read it, so I can't comment." It's your damned job! If you aren't doing it, get the hell out.
These dodgy responses from congress cruds are infuriating, aren't they, especially when five minutes later they show up on NewsMax or OAN to deliver full blown impact statements about the matter.
The question they don’t ask is would they want the unitary executive if a democrat was president because their ultimate purpose is to ensure there will never be a democratic president.
TRUMP’S MENTAL ILLNESS IS A NATIONAL CRISIS DESTROYING AMERICA
---------------------
Donald Trump is taking his cues from Russ Vought, a key architect of Project 2025. Vought is behind the executive orders designed to expand presidential power, dismantle federal agencies, and advance Trump’s "America First" agenda.
---------------------
Trump is signing these executive orders (despite their lack of transparency, strategic evaluation, and consideration of long-term consequences) because he is intellectually incapable of understanding their complexity. Project 2025’s architects have found the perfect figurehead in Trump: a leader too oblivious to realize he is facilitating their radical agenda.
---------------------
Trump is unaware that he is eliminating organizations essential to diplomacy, public health, workforce development, and federal coordination, institutions that exist to serve the American people. His ignorance and recklessness are placing the nation in jeopardy.
---------------------
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF TRUMP'S UNFITNESS
---------------------
From a clinical perspective, Trump’s inability to comprehend the policies he enacts is a symptom of cognitive decline, possibly exacerbated by years of unchecked delusions of grandeur. His reliance on Vought and Project 2025 suggests that he is not an independent decision-maker but rather a puppet for extremists intent on reshaping the government in their image.
---------------------
This manipulation is possible because Trump lacks the intellectual curiosity, foresight, and moral compass necessary to critically evaluate policy decisions. His well documented impulsivity and failure to grasp nuance make him an easy pawn for ideologues whose interests lie not in democracy, but in consolidating power.
---------------------
Moreover, Trump’s defining psychological trait—malignant narcissism—drives him to seek power at any cost, even if it means dismantling the very institutions that uphold American democracy. His pathological need for dominance, combined with his cognitive rigidity, renders him incapable of strategic thinking or weighing long term consequences. Instead, he is guided by personal grievances, blind loyalty tests, and an insatiable hunger for adulation, traits that make him a direct threat to national stability.
---------------------
THE CONSEQUENCES OF TRUMP'S MENTAL UNFITNESS
---------------------
The destruction of federal agencies vital to diplomacy, public health, and workforce development will have catastrophic consequences, yet Trump remains oblivious. His psychological impairments leave him indifferent to human suffering and blind to the broader implications of his actions. He does not govern; he reacts. He does not build; he destroys.
---------------------
Ultimately, Trump’s mental unfitness, combined with his susceptibility to manipulation, is driving the United States toward autocratic collapse. The more power he amasses, the more he will be exploited by those who understand governance far better than he does. But they are not using him for the good of the nation; they are using him to dismantle it.
---------------------
Trump’s mental illness is not just his own personal failing, it is a national crisis. If left unchecked, it will erode the very foundations of American democracy.
Aligned with Christian nationalism are the tech bros that believe sovereign corporations should be run like monarchies. JD Vance and Peter Thiel are influenced and support these people.
Heres what our vice president said in 2022 on some incel podcast. This is a quote from that podcast in a vanity fair article.
“He said he thought this was pessimistic. “I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left,” he said. “And turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.”
“I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”
“And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.””
The whole 'unitary executive' argument strikes me as complete b.s. It's not just that I disagree with it, but I don't believe that Vought and company actually believe it either. I have no doubt that they want their President to be able to do whatever he wants. But the Constitution is politically neutral, if they really believed that what Trump is doing is justified by the Constitution then they would also believe that a Democratic President was equally empowered.
Vought, Trump and this Christian Nationalist movement will falter like Prohibition. These people are desperately trying to hold back time. They’re like the little boy who put his finger in the dike to hold back the tide. Women will always have abortions for medical or private reasons. There will always be homosexuals and transgender people. Religious freedom and freedom from religion will always prevail. Woman and people of color will never take a back seat again. Mankind will move forward and there’s no going back. They are delusional.
The point is that if you are not like them (white, straight, and Christian) you don’t need to be in this country.
To damn bad - their Supreme Court allowed virtually everyone to have guns. We can’t leave. Many of us are too poor. But we can shoot
Yes! And I am doing all that I can to help the resistance!
Prohibition lasted 13 years can we last that long?
No but neither will he. 😄
I doubt I’ll see it through especially if their new budget goes through. Cuts to Medicare and to Veteran’s medical services-we elderly and former supporters of the country’s Armed Forces might as well rot away in illness and poverty. A gun will not do me any good at this point. But, for whatever you have in mind, be safe and keep your address private.
Please don't call these people Christian. They are as far away from Christ's ministry and teachings as someone could be.
But if someone self-identifies that way, who am I to say otherwise? That's what I've never quite understood about this notion that they should not be called Christians.
"Christians" or "claim to be Christians" work. As for whether or not you dare to say otherwise, go directly to the book of Galatians in the New Testament, chapter 5, verses 22-23: "the fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such there is no law."
If they accept as their leader a man who manifests exactly the opposite of every one of those, then I think it's fair to assume that they are worshipping an orange calf rather than God. (See: golden calf in the Old Testament)
Also this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnpavlovitz/p/the-christians-mocking-jesus-and?r=2t8yh6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The key word in your answer is "self." That's what they are about.
It's why I no longer capitalize the word "christian".
I can’t read everything I want to, so articles like these I appreciate very much!
I see several powerful operating (and potentially opposing) factions in this new government:
We’ve got the Project 25 group with their anti-left authoritarianism as per this article.
The Christian nationalists who are a powerful entity, but not with all players.
JFK jr who none of the new elites actually care about.
Layered-over by the powerful tech-bros like Curtis Yarvin and Bilaji Srinivasan. These quiet individuals have enormous influence in the Whitehouse, and are playing their own game of an AI/crypto future where the intellectual elite rule.
I wonder how trump fits in. I used to think he was just a means to an end, but with his latest move to ally the US with putin, I’m struggling to work it all out.
What I really hope is that all these giant egos crash and burn.
Hear, hear
I'm pretty sure you mean RFK Jr, but for a while there, his long-deceased cousin John factored into their bizarre conspiracy theories as well.
"His faith remains at the core of his life and politics. Mr. Vought calls himself a Christian nationalist."
That's not true faith. No matter what y'all think of Christianity, that ain't it.
He's using a word that doesn't belong to him. If Jesus were alive today, he'd be maligned by these pasty white dudes every time he marched his dark-skinned ass in the streets with the most oppressed of us.
The only times Jesus would associate himself with a guy like Vought would be for the same reason he pulled Matthew, a hated tax collector, into his circle of apostles. But Vought would never join him. Joining him would interfere with his emperor and his empire, which will soon enough blow up in his pasty white face because y'all are rising up to stop this shiz. Vought is Rome. He'd probably pay for the crucifix himself if he had to.
The only faith Vought has is in the male patriarchy and the American money machine.
(I'm a pasty white dude, so I get to say "pasty white dudes", and I'm okay with anyone else saying it.)
God or Jesus would say, "I never knew you." This monster is no Christian. He's an agent of Satan like the people he enjoys accusing them of being.
Completely agree! And I lived among those rich “pasty white dudes” for decades.
It’s about money and power over others. That’s not Jesus. That’s the other side.
American's got the government they wanted and the President that they knew.
None of this is surprising to anyone outside the USA.
A few Republicans and most Dems knew what was going to happen if Trump got in.
They knew that Trump lies and that MAGA Republicans drank the KoolAid.
Maybe MAGA Republicans will figure out that Trump doesn't give a shit about anyone.
He's a user. He cares only about himself.
That is a bitter pill for MAGA Republicans to swallow.
James Carvell is right.
Just hold on and ride this wave until things get bad enough that MAGA Republicans wake up.
As things go south, as they assuredly will, Vought is going to peer into the undercarriage of a bus. The same goes for Musk. Trump will claim he knew nothing about what was happening or that these two went rogue. Journalists need to reference Truman when they ask Trump where the buck stops. And "I didn't know" doesn't wash because the fact is that he "didn't care."
"
It really, really ticks me off when he plays the "I didn't know about that" game. Members of Congress can be even worse as they run away from reporters in the halls of Congress. "I haven't seen that." "I haven't read it, so I can't comment." It's your damned job! If you aren't doing it, get the hell out.
These dodgy responses from congress cruds are infuriating, aren't they, especially when five minutes later they show up on NewsMax or OAN to deliver full blown impact statements about the matter.
Or DOGE-y responses, as the case may be. It ought to be pronounced the way you described the double-speak.
The Russuglicans are accomplices in Dump’s lawlessness. They should ALL be charged with the crimes they are committing
Omigosh, you are Amazing. So well explained. Thank you.
I just glanced at the headline thinking it said “Trump is letting Russel Vought go…” I was so happy for 1 second.
haha wouldn't that be some good news!
This is too terrifying to read. In fact I was getting sick to my stomach and had to stop. “Post-Constitutional Moment” did me in.
Eek sorry! But no lie, it is nauseating.
The question they don’t ask is would they want the unitary executive if a democrat was president because their ultimate purpose is to ensure there will never be a democratic president.
---------------------
TRUMP’S MENTAL ILLNESS IS A NATIONAL CRISIS DESTROYING AMERICA
---------------------
Donald Trump is taking his cues from Russ Vought, a key architect of Project 2025. Vought is behind the executive orders designed to expand presidential power, dismantle federal agencies, and advance Trump’s "America First" agenda.
---------------------
Trump is signing these executive orders (despite their lack of transparency, strategic evaluation, and consideration of long-term consequences) because he is intellectually incapable of understanding their complexity. Project 2025’s architects have found the perfect figurehead in Trump: a leader too oblivious to realize he is facilitating their radical agenda.
---------------------
Trump is unaware that he is eliminating organizations essential to diplomacy, public health, workforce development, and federal coordination, institutions that exist to serve the American people. His ignorance and recklessness are placing the nation in jeopardy.
---------------------
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF TRUMP'S UNFITNESS
---------------------
From a clinical perspective, Trump’s inability to comprehend the policies he enacts is a symptom of cognitive decline, possibly exacerbated by years of unchecked delusions of grandeur. His reliance on Vought and Project 2025 suggests that he is not an independent decision-maker but rather a puppet for extremists intent on reshaping the government in their image.
---------------------
This manipulation is possible because Trump lacks the intellectual curiosity, foresight, and moral compass necessary to critically evaluate policy decisions. His well documented impulsivity and failure to grasp nuance make him an easy pawn for ideologues whose interests lie not in democracy, but in consolidating power.
---------------------
Moreover, Trump’s defining psychological trait—malignant narcissism—drives him to seek power at any cost, even if it means dismantling the very institutions that uphold American democracy. His pathological need for dominance, combined with his cognitive rigidity, renders him incapable of strategic thinking or weighing long term consequences. Instead, he is guided by personal grievances, blind loyalty tests, and an insatiable hunger for adulation, traits that make him a direct threat to national stability.
---------------------
THE CONSEQUENCES OF TRUMP'S MENTAL UNFITNESS
---------------------
The destruction of federal agencies vital to diplomacy, public health, and workforce development will have catastrophic consequences, yet Trump remains oblivious. His psychological impairments leave him indifferent to human suffering and blind to the broader implications of his actions. He does not govern; he reacts. He does not build; he destroys.
---------------------
Ultimately, Trump’s mental unfitness, combined with his susceptibility to manipulation, is driving the United States toward autocratic collapse. The more power he amasses, the more he will be exploited by those who understand governance far better than he does. But they are not using him for the good of the nation; they are using him to dismantle it.
---------------------
Trump’s mental illness is not just his own personal failing, it is a national crisis. If left unchecked, it will erode the very foundations of American democracy.
---------------------
Aligned with Christian nationalism are the tech bros that believe sovereign corporations should be run like monarchies. JD Vance and Peter Thiel are influenced and support these people.
Heres what our vice president said in 2022 on some incel podcast. This is a quote from that podcast in a vanity fair article.
“He said he thought this was pessimistic. “I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left,” he said. “And turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.”
“I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”
“And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.””
And that’s what they’re doing.
The Vanity Fair article is here: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2MvzGPixaw12rQKMO9j_YwjJEFfgsH3fInYA8oSC4RUEzzVnnRH5RrM8g_aem_whE92g7oESpu3M__eHwH3w
Agree. See my own comment.
I saw it shortly after. Glad to see more of us are getting to the root of this.
The whole 'unitary executive' argument strikes me as complete b.s. It's not just that I disagree with it, but I don't believe that Vought and company actually believe it either. I have no doubt that they want their President to be able to do whatever he wants. But the Constitution is politically neutral, if they really believed that what Trump is doing is justified by the Constitution then they would also believe that a Democratic President was equally empowered.
Did not Rex Tillerson have it right when he referred to Trump as a fucking moron years ago?
Excellent post! Thank you!