In a span of an hour, he tweeted that vaccines are ‘dangerous,’ that a doctor concerned about the child’s vulnerability to disease is a ‘brainwashed commie’ and that a defender of science is a ‘typical leftist trying to take credit for something only The Lord God Almighty is in control of.'”

The winner here: Louie Gohmert, who may no longer be the dumbest guy ever elected in Texas.

Obvious enough, right?

But the details are absolutely terrifying. Author Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Big Short, Liar’s Poker) went around the government to study the so-called Deep State, and this book “The Fifth Risk,” details what he found.

Two things stand out as terrifying:

1. The non-existent transition: “Lewis describes the scene inside the Commerce Department the Monday after the election, where ‘dozens of civil servants sat all day waiting to deliver briefings’ to Trump’s transition team about their agencies’ role and responsibilities, ‘that would, in the end, never be heard.'”

2. The disappearing facts: “A lot of government data is now disappearing from government websites, data on climate change at the EPA, on animal abuse at the Department of Agriculture, on violent crime at the Department of Justice. ‘Under each act of data suppression,’ Lewis writes, ‘usually lay a narrow commercial motive: a gun lobbyist, a coal company, a poultry company.'”