America lost one of its greatest and most underappreciated heroes Monday when the Rev. As a Nashville college professor and disciple of Gandhian non-violent protest, Lawson swapped ideas with his friend the Rev. The vast majority of people who found reporter Beth Reinhard’s eye-opening article on the internet also got a headline that was a lot less wishy-washy: “Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-Constitutional’ vision for second term.” It swaps out the weasel word “muscular” for a term that neither I nor you probably had heard before: “post-Constitutional.” It is the scariest word in America right now. Here’s how Vought himself describes it: “We are living in a post-Constitutional time” — a claim he repeated on X/Twitter just last month. A massive reversal of civil-service protections would bring to Washington an army of Trump fanatics to make it happen.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2024 01:33 UTC