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Hillary’s Soft Despotism
Wall Street Journal ^ | 14 Mar, 2016 | WILLIAM MCGURN

Posted on 03/15/2016 2:37:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Donald Trump is Hilter. Donald Trump is a fascist. Donald Trump is a dictator.

Certainly Mr. Trump has a mouth, and he’s not afraid to use it. He also speaks to adoring crowds who cheer when he says to respond in kind to activists trying to disrupt his rallies. Even so, the over-the-top claims that Mr. Trump is the new Il Duce may be distracting attention from the soft despotism that Tocqueville deemed the far likelier menace to American liberties.

This kind of authoritarianism doesn’t come with goose steps or brown shirts or large populist movements. It prefers bureaucracy to bombast. It presents itself as a solution to the complexities of modern government, and it’s called the administrative state.

Philip Hamburger—a Columbia law professor and author of the 2015 book “Is Administrative Law Unlawful?”—defines the administrative state as the substitution of regulatory edicts for laws passed by the people’s elected representatives. In the American iteration, at least, this often means the same federal agency that writes the rules also enforces and adjudicates them—a confluence of powers Madison once called the “very definition of tyranny.”


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: hillary

1 posted on 03/15/2016 2:37:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Hillary would like the government to control every aspect of our lives.


2 posted on 03/15/2016 2:37:55 PM 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

The fact is that the Wall Street Journal would rather have Hillary then a Republican The Democrats have no compunction about putting more money


3 posted on 03/15/2016 2:39:21 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: stocksthatgoup

They certainly have spent more time attacking Trump and Hillary over the last year


4 posted on 03/15/2016 2:40:02 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: MtnClimber

All yur cookie recipes are belong to me. Hillarity 2016


5 posted on 03/15/2016 2:43:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s only “soft” because she’s not yet “President” Hillary.

Were she “President” Hillary it would be granite-hard despotism.


6 posted on 03/15/2016 2:43:48 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: MtnClimber
And from the WSJ?

I didn't think it was possible.

7 posted on 03/15/2016 2:46:51 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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“Hamburger—a Columbia law professor and author of the 2015 book “Is Administrative Law Unlawful?”—defines the administrative state as the substitution of regulatory edicts for laws passed by the people’s elected representatives. In the American iteration, at least, this often means the same federal agency that writes the rules also enforces and adjudicates them—a confluence of powers Madison once called the “very definition of tyranny.””

This IS how it’s being done and being done right now.

For example, you must be told when you can have a fire in your fireplace.

If you disobey, neighbors are supposed to report you.

“The law” says that a person could even be jailed for it.


8 posted on 03/15/2016 2:48:12 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump says what needs to be done but in our politically correct crippled society, idiots don’t want to hear it. Terror attack after terror attack after terror attack by Muslims. Say maybe we should think about not letting Muslims into the country. Oh you are Hitler. Illegals are costing us billions, they are bringing in drugs, rapists and killers are coming in because illegals aren’t checked out for criminal records. We need to secure the border and build a wall. Oh you are Hitler.

You ever get the feeling “Hitler” is more of a curse word to these idiots rather than the actual guy from history? It seems to me none of them know who Hitler actually was or what he did.


9 posted on 03/15/2016 2:50:04 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“It seems to me none of them know who Hitler actually was or what he did.”

I wouldn’t bet that none of them do but I think less than five percent would be a sure thing.


10 posted on 03/15/2016 2:54:48 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hitler only wishes he had the abilities of a Trump.


11 posted on 03/15/2016 2:56:19 PM PDT by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: MtnClimber
Two things in this election cycle:

Hillary will never get Trump's testicles in a lock box.
Trump will not be afraid to go after the girl and smack back.

12 posted on 03/15/2016 3:14:42 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: MtnClimber

Godwin’s law....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law


13 posted on 03/15/2016 3:26:04 PM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: MtnClimber

The only thing that’s soft is the heads of the idiot voters who would vote for this Marxist b*tch.


14 posted on 03/15/2016 3:27:31 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hey, GOPe.....Trump 2016. Because f___ you.)
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To: MtnClimber
Keep swinging Hillary.


15 posted on 03/15/2016 3:28:58 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: mowowie

Yes, those using those statements against Trump are losing the debate as soon as they open their mouths.


16 posted on 03/15/2016 3:30:44 PM 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

The concept of the administrative branch of the fed becoming an unelected source of tyranny, as well as ways to fight it, has been described by others.

By the People by Charles Murray, A Book Review
http://hubpages.com/literature/By-the-People-A-Book-Review


17 posted on 03/15/2016 3:50:47 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: MtnClimber

When the time comes to clean out the criminal fascist syndicate occupying Washington, remember three points:

1. They have names

2. They have addresses.

3. They live in your communities.

Bonus point: American leftists can’t fight for sh*t.


18 posted on 03/15/2016 4:56:38 PM PDT by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: MtnClimber
After seeing this I think Hillary could be beaten by any candidate the Republicans put forth She is so toast.
19 posted on 03/15/2016 5:05:57 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: MtnClimber
Hillary All politicians would like the government to control every aspect of our lives.

Pardon my correction.

20 posted on 03/15/2016 5:22:47 PM PDT by buckalfa (I am feeling much better now.)
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