There are few MAGA activists as blindly committed to President Donald Trump than pastor Shane Vaughn, who openly admits to being a "cult follower" of the president.
As such, it was really only a matter of time before Vaughn began openly advocating for Trump to become a dictator, as he did during a recent podcast.
Relying upon a profoundly ahistorical interpretation of the founding of the United States, Vaughn absurdly claimed that the Founding Fathers wanted the create a monarchy but knew that the American people would not stand for it. As such, Vaughn asserted that the Founder therefore intentionally structured the Constitution in such a way as to guarantee intractable gridlock, thereby paving the way for someone like Trump to one day rise up and seize dictatorial authority.
"Donald Trump was prophesied, or predicted rather, by the Founding Fathers of our nation," Vaughn claimed. "Our Founding Fathers prayed for a strong man like Donald Trump."
"In fact, they wanted a strong man like Donald Trump," Vaughn continued. "Someone that would bring salvation to a nation. Someone that would cut through the noise and steer the ship when the crew is too busy fighting with each other to even row out of harbor."
"There is a reason that the Founders created institutional gridlock," Vaughn said. "Because they knew if they created these institutional gridlocks, it would force Americans to choose a king, a strong man, when the system broke down and they would all get what they secretly wanted from the beginning: a monarchy."
"A man that could rise above the institutions—the Congress, the Supreme Court, the Senate—and could take the wheel and save a nation from democracy," he continued. "The separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism, all of that creates paralysis in normal times. The only way to break the deadlock of the separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism is through strong executive action. That's why you see Donald Trump signing executive orders like a dictator, because somebody had to take the wheel and pull us out of this gridlock created by our Founding Fathers. And they created it to produce a king."
"America needed exactly what our Founders intended: a strong man, a king who would break the deadlock and get America moving forward," Vaughn declared. "His name Donald Trump."
