Posted on 02/24/2025 2:25:46 PM PST by CFW
If Presidents can't control the Executive Branch, elections don't really matter. The Administrative State exists to perpetuate unelected Democrat control, no matter who wins or loses. It has to end.
Ninety years ago, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal created a constitutional obscenity: agencies of government that violated separation of powers and that were not accountable to the elected President.
You might find it odd that as dynamic a President as FDR would want this, but oh dear reader, you are missing the point. The agencies were staffed almost entirely by Democrats, who were happy to do Roosevelt’s bidding. It’s after Roosevelt, when Democrats lost elections to Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes and Trump that the brilliance of FDR’s plan kicked in. Because a permanent bureaucracy permanently staffed by Democrats will perpetuate Democrat rule no matter who wins a mere election.
The New Deal was, in short, a stealth, slow-motion coup. We’re still living under the new regime it created, keeping the forms but not the substance of the old Republic.
To achieve these ends, Roosevelt’s Democrats had to do two things.
First, the new agencies had to violate separation of powers, creating hosts of siloed subject-matter dictatorships. The EPA makes laws (and no, Congress may not delegate its lawmaking powers). It also administers those laws and prosecutes violations. But it prosecutes in front of its own “Administrative Law Judges”, who report to the same agency that made, administered, and prosecuted the laws “violated”. Under the Supreme Court’s landmark Chevron case (overturned last summer), you didn’t even have a right to appeal to a real Article 3 court; and if somehow you got there, the Senate-confirmed judge was required to defer to the agency’s interpretation of, well, pretty much everything.
Did I mention this was and is obscene?
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the Democrats LOVED gerrymandering when they were able to use it to benefit themselves, but started hating it when it started benefiting Republicans. Liberals need to imagine that Trump creates 100’s of government agencies, with MAGA’s that can never be fired and that no future Democrat can do anything about.
That is what it is like dealing with these swamp people Trump is getting rid of.
“The Executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America” is a hard clause that Scotus will soon, IMO, restore.
Excellent observations.
One really gets the impression that FDR thought he was going to live forever, and be president forever.
As much as Truman tried to re-form the government to provide some rational structure and accountability, the damage was done. The ‘Smart Men’ were running the show and beginning the process of implementing The Blob state.
With FDR, the press concealed a physical invalid. With Biden, they concealed a mental invalid.
To call the Deep State unconstitutional is inaccurate. It is brazenly ANTI-Constitutional! FDR and western leftists always admired the socialist worker’s paradise utopia USSR, and have mourned its loss. They hate Putin but they loved Gorby. Remember Rush’s Gorbasiums?
Most people don’t realize that independent agencies can be created by Congress that the President has no authority over. Trump is challenging that notion. Hope he wins.
“If Presidents can’t control the Executive Branch, elections don’t really matter.”
If the Judiciary can control the Executive Branch, then elections don’t really matter.
There, fixed it
Wow. Incredible article!!
If he actually accomplishes this, he'll belong on Mt. Rushmore if (and only if), he simultaneously returns "Federal Lands," National Monuments, and such to the Several States. Those were enacted via equally unconstitutional multilateral treaties, now held at the UN (now there's a blast from the past... lots of great FReepers on that thread, now dead, gone or discharged).
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