"... a new federal government that is a sort of rogue organism that exists for its own enhancement and is willing to do anything necessary to help those who help it."
McConnell and Boehner and every member of the GOP Congress should appear at a press conference on the steps of Congress and demand an end to this corrupt lawlessness.
The founders knew that governments grow more rapidly than the host and so the ability do demand resources was deliberately limited.
The Progressives introduced the Sixteenth Amendment to rectify that limitation.
This was analogous to angiogenesis in cancer - a permanent, ever-increasing source of nutrients.
A better analogy is cancer as it kills the host from within.
I'm actually surprised that we lasted this long.
This is serious, we've never seen anything like this in this country. We have a deranged, demagogic, totalitarian leftist as our president who has turned everything he touches into pure drek, one who has manipulated ALL the organs of government to enhance the leftist lust for power. We have a GOP elite that doesn't understand the depth of evil it's confronting or is too comfortable with its perks to care. We have a media that cheers for the administration, bent on slathering lipstick on the pig and calling it a beautiful and desirous supermodel. We have a center right (often displayed here at FR) that is so fractured that it has no capacity to mount a serious challenge. Witness the reelection of Lindsay et al and the powerlessness we all feel on a daily basis.
This feels like a combination of pre WW II Germany, and post WW II England. The evil of Hitler coupled with the loss of national identity. We need to take some deep breaths, pray for sanity, pray for our country, and pray for the wisdom to come against this unleashing of evil.