Republican Roller Coaster

Is this normal?

A silly drawing for you. Maybe it’s what life is about: we evolve just to ride a roller coaster. Whoopie!

Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his nomination for attorney general, after a report of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use was beginning to come out.

During the lead-up to the election, there was much discussion about Project 2025, the radical blueprint for Trump’s presidency should he win. Trump denied involvement with it because it is an alarming document in terms of radical changes to our government. Now, according to Ed O’Keefe and Major Garrett of CBS News, the main architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, is expected to be nominated to be Trump’s Office of Management and Budget. This project seeks to radically change how the US government is structured. Heather Cox Richardson reports:

“Vought wrote the section of Project 2025 that covers the presidency, calling for “aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch” to “bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will” and identifying the OMB as the means of enforcing the president’s agenda. Vought was Trump’s OMB director during the end of his first term and tried to remove the civil service protections that have been in place since 1883 to protect federal workers from being fired for political reasons. That plan, known as…