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Russ Vought, a frequent guest on right-wing media shows and key figure in Project 2025, a broad effort to staff a future Republican administ
John Knefel at MMFA:
Russ Vought, a frequent guest on right-wing media shows and key figure in Project 2025, a broad effort to staff a future Republican administration, will have a top role in drafting the platform for the GOP's convention this July, virtually ensuring the document will be a wishlist of MAGA priorities. The Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign made the joint announcement on May 15, highlighting Vought’s new role “as the committee's policy director” for the RNC’s 2024 Committee on the Platform and noting his previous tenure as director of the Office of Management and Budget under former President Donald Trump. In that position, Vought oversaw the administration’s attempts to remove supposed “critical race theory trainings” from federal programs and sought to coordinate the White House’s directives across the executive branch more broadly.
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After Trump’s loss in 2020, Vought founded the Center for Renewing America, where he has consistently pushed a Christian nationalist agenda. He has called for an “army” of right-wing activists with “biblical worldview” to serve in the next Republican administration, and wrote an op-ed for Newsweek in 2021 with the headline: “Is There Anything Actually Wrong With 'Christian Nationalism?' As Politico reported, “One document drafted by CRA staff and fellows includes a list of top priorities for CRA in a second Trump term. ‘Christian nationalism’ is one of the bullet points.”
The Center for Renewing America has emerged as a key player in the MAGA-aligned think tank world. It’s one of the more than 100 conservative groups that make up Project 2025, an effort organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide staffing and policy proposals to a future GOP presidency. Vought plays a central role in the effort, including as the author of a chapter in Project 2025’s guiding document, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, in which he argued that the “enormous power” of the executive branch should be exclusively the purview of the president rather than dispersed within agencies and departments.
Though that argument may sound anodyne, Vought’s vision has radical implications. First and foremost, Vought advocates for implementing a policy known as “Schedule F,” which would reclassify tens of thousands of federal employees as political appointees — thus stripping them of union protections. If Trump is reelected in November and chooses to go forward with Schedule F, he could fire career civil servants from agencies and departments en masse and replace them hardcore MAGA foot soldiers, potentially decimating the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Labor, the Department of Education, and other frequent right-wing targets. “What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of independence and seize them,” Vought has said, according to The New York Times.
Center For Renewing America founder and key Project 2025 influencer Russ Vought was appointed to the RNC's Platform Committee for the upcoming convention in Milwaukee this July. #RNC2024
The last one originally refers to the events of the weekend, but could also cover things in Milwaukee just because Trumpers are seditious scum.
Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, putting on a brave face after being rejected by Donald Trump for the vice presidential slot, ga
Walker Einenkel at Daily Kos:
Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, putting on a brave face after being rejected by Donald Trump for the vice presidential slot, gave a speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday, where he assured the delegates that there is no racism in America. “This is going to offend the liberal elites. Every time I say it, it offends them,” Scott promised. “But let me say it one more time. America is not a racist country! No, we're not.” Whew, what a relief. But not really. “But if you are looking for racism today, you'd find it in cities run by Democrats. Look on the south, look on the south side of Chicago, poor Black kids trapped in failing schools. Thousands shot every single year, including one of my former interns DaQuawn.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)’s speech at the RNC last night was full of Uncle Ruckus nonsense about how “America is not a racist country” but that racism can be found in “cities run by Democrats.”
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“This is the newest fashion trend," one Republican delegate told CBS News.
Lee Moran at HuffPost:
Some Republicans at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee have been photographed and filmed sporting fake bandages and Band-Aids on their ears in apparent solidarity with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who’s worn a large bandage on his right ear after it was wounded during the attempt on his life over the weekend. “This is the newest fashion trend. I’m getting this going,” Arizona delegate Joe Neglia told CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe on Tuesday. “Everybody in the world is going to be wearing these pretty soon. It’s the latest thing,” Neglia continued. “My wife calls me and tells me I dress like an engineer, but I’m setting new fashion ground here.”
RNC delegates and spectators are sporting a tacky fashion trend: fake bandages in the right ear to show solidarity for Donald Trump’s survival of his assassination attempt on Saturday.
Had the assassination attempt been successful, then there would have been chaos on the floor to determine who’ll head the ticket and who’ll the running mate be. #RNC2024
Remember this ? When Donald Trump told Sean Hannity that he was going to be a dictator� � “on day one”? ...
Joan McCarter at Daily Kos:
Now, on the national stage at the Republican National Convention, when everyone has been ordered to dial down the crazy, the convicted felon insists, “I am the one saving democracy for the American people.”
During his RNC nomination acceptance speech last night, 34x convicted felon and attempted coup plotter Donald Trump gaslit the American people by insisting that “I am the one saving democracy for the American people.”
Nope, you are the one who did a lot to endanger democracy when you were “President” and would become a dictator if you win again. #RNC2024