Americans don't want an authoritarian government. MAGA needs to pack their bags and head for Russia where they'll finally be happy.
JD Vance’s ‘Constitutional Crisis’ in the Making
One key policy pushed repeatedly by Vance and outlined in Project 2025 is Trump’s controversial “Schedule F” proposal, which would strip civil service protections from potentially tens of thousands of federal employees so that they can be replaced by Republican political appointees.
Most provocatively, Vance has suggested in a series of interviews this year that Trump should defy the Supreme Court if the justices invalidated the effort.
Vance’s proposal for Trump to simply defy the Supreme Court if it threw out Schedule F is also deeply concerning. It runs contrary to our collective, basic and firmly embedded civic understanding that the Supreme Court has the last word on what the law is in this country, for better or worse. Americans may not like it — they frequently and at times vocally do not — but it is a broadly accepted fact of American governance, and Vance’s evident willingness to reject it is worrisome.
“It certainly feeds into concerns that people have expressed about authoritarianism as an element of his thought,” Farber told me. “That’s not the sort of thing leaders in a democracy say — and definitely not about relatively routine legal issues.”
JD Vance’s ‘Constitutional Crisis’ in the Making
One key policy pushed repeatedly by Vance and outlined in Project 2025 is Trump’s controversial “Schedule F” proposal, which would strip civil service protections from potentially tens of thousands of federal employees so that they can be replaced by Republican political appointees.
Most provocatively, Vance has suggested in a series of interviews this year that Trump should defy the Supreme Court if the justices invalidated the effort.
Vance’s proposal for Trump to simply defy the Supreme Court if it threw out Schedule F is also deeply concerning. It runs contrary to our collective, basic and firmly embedded civic understanding that the Supreme Court has the last word on what the law is in this country, for better or worse. Americans may not like it — they frequently and at times vocally do not — but it is a broadly accepted fact of American governance, and Vance’s evident willingness to reject it is worrisome.
“It certainly feeds into concerns that people have expressed about authoritarianism as an element of his thought,” Farber told me. “That’s not the sort of thing leaders in a democracy say — and definitely not about relatively routine legal issues.”
