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Will Baumgartner make any effort to defend Congress from the Trump/Musk coup?

Yesterday afternoon (February 5th), about seventy people showed up at the office of our new Representative to the U.S. House, Michael Baumgartner (R-CD5). Baumgartner wasn’t there, but surely his staff relayed the message that his constituents were upset. In the face of the Trump/Musk dictatorial power grab, one hopes that Rep. Baumgartner will take his oath to uphold the Constitution seriously.

The day before yesterday (February 4th) a similar number demonstrated at the Federal Building near the south end of the Monroe St. bridge. It was covered by reporter Thomas Clouse in the Spokesman the yesterday morning.

Both of these demonstrations were hastily organized and attended on short notice, and in spite of some generalized angst over surveillance and possible agitators. I expect that subsequent demonstrations will see increasing attendance. People are justifiably angry over the illegal and unconstitutional actions of Presidents Musk and Trump in taking over the computer systems of the U.S. Treasury, to name a particularly egregious example among many.

It is not like we weren’t warned. Most of this is straight out of “Project 2025” (click to see a pdf copy), the nearly 900 page blueprint for the whole government takeover published by the Heritage Foundation. When Project 2025 was discussed in the media and was receiving negative attention, Donald Trump lied (surprised?) and distanced himself from the plan. Now we’re living through it. There was even a short video on YouTube that appeared almost two months before the November election. I missed it then, but it was recently flagged to me by a friend. I recommend a clicking on and watching “The Project 2025 Song!”. It’s only four and a half minutes. It’s informative and entertaining, although, in light of current events, rather grim.

P.S. Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget late in Trump’s first term, was one of the primary architects the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. Remember his name. Click the name to read about him in his Wikipedia entry. He is one of the powers behind Trump’s would-be throne. He is nominated to serve as Trump’s new White House budget chief. He has been rightly described as the “architect of the dismantling of our federal government.”

Jerry LeClaire, Indivisible