The Malignant Loser, who once said he "only hires the best people," saw a number of those hires from his regime unwilling to carry out his unlawful orders, mainly to overthrow a free and fair election to keep him in power illegitimately. While ignorant of most matters of common knowledge, the Malignant Loser's lizard brain knows that if America is addled and evil enough to re-elect him, his next crop of "best people" will be heel-clicking cultists devoted to him and not the Constitution or laws. His plans to staff the Justice Department with those loyalists was covered in this morning's New York Times:
"Close allies of Donald J. Trump are preparing to populate a new administration with a more aggressive breed of right-wing lawyer, dispensing with traditional conservatives who they believe stymied his agenda in his first term.
The allies have been drawing up lists of lawyers they view as ideologically and temperamentally suited to serve in a second Trump administration. Their aim is to reduce the chances that politically appointed lawyers would frustrate a more radical White House agenda — as they sometimes did when Mr. Trump was in office, by raising objections to his desires for certain harsher immigration policies or for greater personal control over the Justice Department, among others. [snip]
Top Trump allies have come to view their party’s legal elites — even leaders with seemingly impeccable conservative credentials — as out of step with their movement.
'The Federalist Society doesn’t know what time it is,' said Russell T. Vought, a former senior Trump administration official who runs a think tank with close ties to the former president. He argued that many elite conservative lawyers had proved to be too timid when, in his view, the survival of the nation is at stake.
Such comments may surprise those who view the Federalist Society as hard-line conservatives. But the move away from the group reflects the continuing evolution of the Republican Party in the Trump era and an effort among those now in his inner circle to prepare to take control of the government in a way unseen in modern presidential history." (our emphasis)
There's more than a whiff of fascism in these plans that intend to remake the executive branch into the instrument of the Malignant Loser's vendetta against his political and personal enemies. It's a sign of how close to fascism the Trumpist movement is when the Federalist Society -- which engineered the nominations of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court -- is seen as too moderate or timid, in fascist Russell Vought's view.
We may not have the perfect candidate to face this existential menace to our democracy, but on the other side we know our nation will be damaged irretrievably if the Malignant Loser finds himself in the Oval Office again. Ignore the Beltway chatter and get ready to organize, mobilize and vote.
