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The Left’s Latest Trump Freakout — He Wants To Control The Executive Branch!
Issues & Insights ^ | 27 Jul, 2023 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 07/27/2023 6:38:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber

It didn’t take long for a New York Times article about Donald Trump’s plans to “increase presidential power in 2025” for the left to suffer yet another mental breakdown, rushing on the air and in print to call the news “terrifying,” “frightening,” “menacing,” “incredibly alarming.” And, of course, “fascist,” or as a University of North Carolina professor took to the Atlantic to declare, “a new kind of fascism.”

What has the left grasping for the Xanax again? Here are the horrifying facts as reported by the Times:

Trump – as well as other Republicans running for office – hope to “increase the president’s authority” over the executive branch of government, including “independent” federal agencies.

“He wants to revive the practice of ‘impounding’ funds, refusing to spend money Congress has appropriated for programs a president doesn’t like,” the Times reports. “He intends to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of career civil servants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to his agenda.”

As the Times puts it: “The agenda being pursued has deep roots in the decades-long effort by conservative legal thinkers to undercut what has become known as the administrative state.”

To constitutional scholars such as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, this is “a plan to radically change the form of governance that we have in the United States. So as to concentrate all the power of the government in the hands of a single leader.”

Maddow and others throwing temper tantrums might try reading the Constitution one day. Right there, in Article II, Section 1, it says “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”

The Constitution also says that there are two other branches of government designed to check executive authority, known as Congress and the Supreme Court.

What really freaks the left out isn’t that Trump and many other conservatives want greater control over the executive branch, it’s that they are finally getting serious about taking on the fourth branch of government.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: deepstate

1 posted on 07/27/2023 6:38:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I worry about what lengths the deep state would go to in order to stop Trump.


2 posted on 07/27/2023 6:39:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

She needs a lot of cheese to go with all that Whine


3 posted on 07/27/2023 6:40:49 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

“a plan to radically change the form of governance”

It’s a plan to UNDO the radical change in governance.


4 posted on 07/27/2023 6:41:56 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: MtnClimber

Same thing is happening to Bibi in Israel. Hope Trmp notices this.


5 posted on 07/27/2023 6:42:08 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: MtnClimber

Not surprising since the Left is basically ignorant about America and its Constitution.

The President of the U.S. IS the executive branch you stupid Lying Delusional Leftists.


6 posted on 07/27/2023 6:44:23 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: MtnClimber
To constitutional scholars such as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow

I didn't know she was a "constitutional scholar". I thought she was just a protected class bloviating sow. What do I know?

7 posted on 07/27/2023 6:45:30 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: MtnClimber

the deep state runs the executive branch

its in the constitution


8 posted on 07/27/2023 6:46:26 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MtnClimber

The Atlantic is a cesspool of liberal hate. Also Vanity Fair. They make MSNBC look objective.


9 posted on 07/27/2023 6:47:34 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: MtnClimber

I think with any new president, everyone submits their resignation.

No doubt, Trump had thousands of federal pajama boys working to undermine him 24/7.


10 posted on 07/27/2023 6:50:59 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: MtnClimber

“He wants to revive the practice of ‘impounding’ funds, refusing to spend money Congress has appropriated for programs a president doesn’t like”

You mean like how Joe Biden refused to continue building the border wall, or enforcing immigration law, even though Congress appropriated funds for those things?

Like that?


11 posted on 07/27/2023 7:02:13 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


12 posted on 07/27/2023 7:05:00 AM PDT by nopardons ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Any.


13 posted on 07/27/2023 7:05:34 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned with who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire.)
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To: MtnClimber

I worry about what lengths the deep state would go to in order to stop Trump.

Correct. If and when all the sham court cases fall through, there is only one avenue left IMO. Cue up a video of a lincoln convertible in 1963 in Dallas. I put NOTHING past this bunch and half the RINOs.

Aside: I wonder if the Turtle speaking at the senate froze up hearing the Hunter deal was killed.


14 posted on 07/27/2023 7:10:48 AM PDT by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: MtnClimber

America needs Trump more than Trump needs America.


15 posted on 07/27/2023 7:31:08 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: MtnClimber

BULL$}{!T !!!

They are just making crap 💩 up now and blowing it out of proportion !!! Now they are trying to use the same scare tactics on .gov employees Leeches, that they are going to lose their jobs, just like they do with Senior Citizens and SS payments.

President Donald J. Trump wants to be able to get rid of USELESS .gov Departments and Agencies. And I as well as others have a few for the List to start with.

16 posted on 07/27/2023 7:52:20 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: joshua c
its in the constitution

And they can't READ English.so therefore they are scared. Going through life being illiterate must be a real bitch !!!

17 posted on 07/27/2023 7:55:30 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: MtnClimber

Ummm, the definition of president is “chief executive”.


18 posted on 07/27/2023 9:22:07 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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