Posted on 02/12/2025 8:16:22 AM PST by Heartlander
Democrats claim we’re in a constitutional crisis because President Trump believes — and acts on the belief — that the executive should control the executive branch. It is a crisis their party has forced on Americans for the last 125 years.
It was the Democrat Party of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson who designed an administrative state to be unaccountable to voters and to ultimately swallow the original Constitution. Constitutional scholars have described this situation as the United States functioning under “two constitutions” — the original, and a competing system of government under Progressives’ “living constitution.” We’re about to see which one will win this very long march through American law and culture.
In the recent election, Americans declared their allegiance to the original U.S. Constitution by electing, by historic margins, a man who promised to uphold it. But simply declaring allegiance does not erase the illegitimate “constitution” that runs Washington, D.C. We are in the early stages of a new front in this longstanding American cold civil war.
The American founders would have called it slavery to force Americans to work to pay for a massive, debt-ridden, counterproductive, and unconstitutional administrative state that majorities of Americans kept voting to restrain by electing Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and now Donald Trump. Throughout the last century, even when Americans voted to limit the bureaucracy, they somehow kept getting more bureaucracy.
As Christopher Caldwell pointed out in Age of Entitlement, Reagan’s presidency was a prime example of this dynamic. He promised to cut government while it expanded. Voters elected him to do this key thing, and they got the opposite of what they voted for.
Because this cancer has advanced so far, Trump may be the last president who can wrestle down the administrative state instead of merely acting as its puppet. He’s certainly giving it the WWE treatment.
Yet it’s impossible for the real Constitution to win if anti-Constitution judges and courts can tell the president he cannot govern his own employees and agencies. It’s impossible for the real Constitution to win if the American people are forced to fund the Constitution’s enemies. “Progressives” demand a fight with both arms tied behind the Constitution’s back.
Democrats want to subjugate Americans to unelected bureaucrats and unelected judges, not protect self-government. They want a slave empire, not a representative republic.
They want Americans to be bound, just as they insist the alleged representatives we allegedly elect to be, entirely by unconstitutional rules. If we object or complain, they want unelected courts to enforce Democrats’ unconstitutional regulations, then saddle us with bankrupting legal fees as extra punishment for seeking the way of life that is our birthright. For, as Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn notes, “The U.S. Constitution implies an entire system of manners and behaviors, an entire outlook upon the world.”
Americans have been propagandized against our constitutional birthrights for longer than the lives of every American living today. We cannot be free if our minds are not free, if we cannot think in the ways of our fathers and prudently apply those unchanging truths about human nature to today’s conditions.
Like every tyranny, Progressivism requires mass propaganda. As we’ve seen with just a peek into U.S. Agency for International Development funding, Democrats’ propaganda machine relies not only on state-controlled media but also on a garbage public education system. Both work to erase not just the average American’s understanding of his constitutional rights and duties, but also our public officials’ understanding of their constitutional rights and duties.
Just as most Americans have, elected officials must stop granting legitimacy to these propaganda institutions and their constantly false projections. Next — and swiftly — they must rediscover the constitutional principles and actions many never learned previously because they were deliberately deprived of such knowledge and habits.
The American people need more than just the elected executive to be engaged in this fight. We need Congress to wake up and fight for their constitutional prerogatives and the traditional American way of life like this is the last chance they might ever get to do so. Because it might be. It’s positive to see weak senators like Todd Young, Susan Collins, and Bill Cassidy show a willingness to vote for their own party’s nominees, but truly rising to the occasion requires much more than delaying one’s nap schedule for five minutes.
Just as the Constitution demands that the executive truly control the executive branch he is elected to lead, the Constitution demands that Congress legislate. Congress needs to stop forcing Americans to live under de facto laws created by unelected bureaucrats in the judiciary and administrative state. It needs to show it understands that Congress and the president together have made the executive agencies, federal judiciary, and all except the Supreme Court serve at its pleasure.
This is why fights about spending and programs are not merely about spending and programs. They are about whether the United States will still adhere in any way at all to its real Constitution.
They are about whether our elections are real or fake. They are about whether we still in some way rule ourselves, or if we are merely serfs ruled by a Politburo. They are about whether government of the people, by the people, and for the people has perished at last from the earth.
We need more leaders who will fight like hell to forestall that end. Trump can stand out front, but he can’t do it all alone. Any member of Congress who is willing to let the next Democrat president reverse Trump’s executive orders because Congress didn’t make them law should resign, and quickly.
Left out Abraham Lincoln who pioneered the way for a massive unaccountable government operating far outside the boundaries the US Constitution set for it.
The changes he put in place are exactly what we are fighting against today; A leviathan, all powerful government that intrudes too deeply into the economic affairs of everyone in the nation.
I think that JFK might be in the list of presidents who tried to fight the deep state bureaucracy and that’s why he was assassinated. Pray for President Trump’s safety.
I couldn't agree with this more. Given what we've learned recently, at this point I consider any republican member of congress who votes to continue on with the perpetuation of this disgusting sham budget as it exists now to be a collaborator, plain and simple.
Andrew Jackson. He fought the Central bank and did quite a bit to control those people who would influence government policy behind the scenes.
Abraham Lincoln made a statement indicating he was aware of "corporations enthroned" running government policy behind the scenes.
Teddy Roosevelt immediately started doing battle with the Crony/Government complex upon taking office. He said there was a threat from "Invisible government."
Dwight Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the "Military Industrial Complex."
And though I used to dismiss the idea that John F Kennedy was killed by a "deep state" or the "CIA" (same thing) over the last few years I have started giving the idea more credibility because of what I have seen them do to Nixon and Trump.
Maybe the Kennedy assassination papers will reveal government involvement in his death. Nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised.
Did Trump Always Know? The Jacksonian Blueprint for Defeating the Deep State
No we are not in a Constitutional Crisis. I do not accept that premise.
Agree. Only the Dems want to push the idea to arouse their supporters to win the midterms.
"Yes, We’re In A Constitutional Crisis — And It’s Democrats’ Fault"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Post-17th Amendment ratification (17A; popular voting for federal senators) crook Democratic and RINO lawmakers have been smartly taking advantage of voters who not only have too much voting power imo, but also don't seem to have a clue about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers. Low-information voters have made it easy for corrupt lawmakers to abuse their 16th Amendment power (16A; direct taxes).
More specifically, post-16&17A politicians eventually discovered that they could promise voters, who have probably never really studied the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, every unconstitutional federal social spending program under the sun to try to get themselves elected. Low-information voters ultimately took the federal “freebies” bait and elected them, and then reelected them, unthinkingly filling Congress with Constitution-ignoring career lawmakers over time by doing so.
Once elected, compromised lawmakers would then abuse their 16A powers simply by establishing the constitutionally indefensible federal social spending programs that they had promised to low-information voters on the campaign trail.
Regarding 16&17A, the first clause in the Constitution probably should have been caveat emptor (let the buyer be aware.)
The next best thing to not having caveat emptor in the Constitution is for PDJT47 to get a grip and lead the states to repeal 16&17A.
We can call the repeal amendment the Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
Trump got shot in the face and told his supporters to fight because that is what he does.
He fights.
He does not surrender.
He will not surrender.
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Forget the Dems.
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“Democrats want to subjugate Americans to unelected bureaucrats and unelected judges, not protect self-government. They want a slave empire, not a representative republic.”
Some of us have been screaming this FOR YEARS! My absolute loathing for the democrat party is old, well founded and carved in stone. If we cannot vote this party into history, then we are finished.
I pray Trump can take this all down- brick by brick. Every single federal agency is their effort and intention to make end runs around the Constitution, esp the 10th amendment, and they have done a real good job.
We need to stay awake with the same fervor that allowed us to elect Trump.
Article & thread BUMP!
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