Meet Russ Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Oh, He's Nuts.

The OMB director who wants to put federal workers "in trauma" isn't hiding his theocratic agenda—he's boasting about it. Meet the true believer with his hands on America's purse strings.

There’s something chilling about a man who speaks of putting federal workers “in trauma” with the beatific smile of someone describing a church potluck. Meet Russell Vought, 49, Trump’s newly reanointed Director of the Office of Management and Budget, a position that sounds bureaucratically soporific but is, in Vought’s capable hands, the equivalent of handing Torquemada the keys to the Treasury.

Vought isn’t your garden-variety Washington operative—those slick-haired mercenaries who’d peddle tax policy for the Heritage Foundation one day and pivot to cannabis lobbying the next if the retainer was right. No, Vought is that far more dangerous specimen: the true believer. He’s a man who accepted Jesus as his savior at age four (one imagines him in footie pajamas, already drafting position papers on original sin) and has spent the subsequent 45 years on a mission to ensure that America returns to what he imagines was its prelapsarian Christian nationalist glory.

The son of a Marine Corps v…