Posted on 09/26/2020 8:27:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
The principle of limited government is at the heart of the American system. The Founders believed that tyranny grows in proportion to power, threatening individual liberty. History is littered with innumerable examples of "absolute Despotism," to use the words of the Declaration of Independence, in which government exercised its power against the people rather than for the people.
The pivot of limited government is restraint. Under the Constitution, government is confined to those powers that protect life, liberty, and property. James Madison warned, "It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it" (Federalist 48).
Despite accusations of fascism from the left, President Trump has attempted to scale back the power of government by eliminating or curtailing many federal regulations and by reducing the size of the federal government and the federal work force. He has made mistakes, to be sure, but in terms of actual policy, his critics are hard pressed to cite substantive examples that amount to a pattern of "tyranny" and "fascism." Instead, much of the criticism surrounds his sometimes reckless language and his verbal attacks on the press. (Ironically, it was Barack Obama who abused government power by investigating, spying on, and harassing journalists.)
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Camelface Harris' Authoritarian America.
Absolute despotism started and has flourished under a republican leader for 6 months. Caravans of illegals, free pass release of criminals, etc.
Biden and his crew might have started it, but this presidency has been marked by losses of freedoms we will never get back. Of course taking responsibility is no longer a republican trait.
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