In the United States, the ultimate check on the growth of power was the realization that, through elections, one side would eventually hand over whatever it had built to its political opponents. This seemed like a reasonable way to prevent tyrannical abuse. Trouble is, America’s founders did not anticipate the emergence of a distinct ruling class capable of maintaining power by capturing institutions.
Elections come and go, but institutions remain. Progressives realized that by controlling the expert class staffing the permanent bureaucracies, they could vest significant power within them without worrying about the fluctuations of democratic politics. A weak and complacent Republican Party, content just to be included, also became invested in the perpetuation of these institutions. This allowed progressives to sprinkle a few “bipartisan” appointments into the mix while ensuring these institutions stayed under progressive control.
Progressives, perhaps unconsciously, know they’ve crossed a line they can’t walk back from and fear that conservatives would be just as ruthless if given the chance.
The state could continue to grow, and Democrats could grant nearly unlimited power to these institutions without fear of reprisal — until Donald Trump arrived.
Trump, though deeply flawed and unable to deliver many of his promised changes, was treated as a mortal threat by the system for good reason. As an outsider, he was not heavily invested in the machinery of governance or the authority of the institutions that progressives rely on to maintain control. At times, particularly during moments of crisis like the pandemic, Trump defaulted to the authority of these institutions, leading to some of his failures. But the mere fact that he was willing to question the system shook the ruling elite to its core.
Figures like Mitt Romney will dutifully maintain the status quo until the left regains official power. But a leader like Trump was never supposed to get anywhere near the levers of that machine. An incredible amount of authority has been placed in the administrative state, and that power was never intended to be handed over to a true political opponent. […]
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“Elections come and go”
Elections are CONTROLLED MIRAGES only rubetards fall for!
“Progressives realized ….”
Keep calling communists and globalists by simp codewords, rubes!
“A weak and complacent Republican Party …”
UNIPARTY, ignoranuses still too spineless and feckless to face up to reality!
(“Mike Lindell is fighting the good fight …” Spewing nonsense that it was the CCP/China who “hacked” (simpleton crackhead Lindell cannot differentiate between “pinging” and “hacking”) the 2020 election and for the citizenry to ignore the CISA/EI–ISAC Network, Dominion, ES&S, Clear Ballot Group, Edison Research, BallotTrax and AWS!?!?)
What was the point to this article???
This article of jellyfish drivel sows complacency and sounds like:
TRUST THE PLAN, VERSION 2.0
Pure CUHRAP!
All this endless LAWFARE has been too successful —- TPTB ain’t shaking in their itty bitty booties, 4Fers!
Articles like this from THE BLAZE are pure sissy drivel, like endless pantyboy articles claiming that the NATIONAL SECURITY STATE conduits of Canada (CBC) and the UK (BBC) and America (CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, etc.) have a “leftwing bias” — ain’t no bias involved, it is ALL SCRIPTED!!!