by Robert M. Traxler
Trump v. The Administrative State, or the Swamp if you prefer. The battle lines are drawn, and the media is squarely on the side of the socialist state.
The American Constitution gives the power to make laws to the elected officials, not the nameless faceless bureaucrats, but it is safer and easier for the legislative and executive legs of our three-legged stool of government (executive, legislative, judicial), to just allow massive numbers of laws masked as regulations to go into effect, then complain about them later.
The House of Representatives and Senate have allowed the executive branch to use executive orders to make law on a whim, a signature on an executive order, with no oversight or review required. Open the border or close the border, the law be damned; it is up to the whim of the executive branch. We have so many rules and regulations it is impossible for us to know if what we do is legal or illegal. Violate the federal Resource and Recovery Act and go to prison for up to 15 years, more than an assault involving physical contact.
The power of the administrative state was on display when government agencies told emergency managers in the southeast US to skip all homes with Trump signs; whether they needed help or not, the administrative state was flexing its muscles.
The bureaucrats are charging hell bent for leather to lock green initiatives in concrete before President Trump is in office, along with a long list of bureaucratic rules and regulations meant to expand the federal bureaucrats’ unchecked power. The bureaucratic portion of the swamp makes malum prohibitum (crimes considered as wrong only because it is prohibited by law, not because it is morally wrong) rules and regulations that have the effect of law. Indeed, they carry stiffer penalties than many malum in se crimes (crimes inherently evil or wrong in themselves) like rape, murder and assault.
The Department of Justice (or the Department of Injustice as some call it) is working overtime to convict as many political prisoners as they can before Jan. 20. The Department of Justice and indeed all federal agencies are working hard (at home of course, not in the office) to expand the nearly 190,000 pages of the code of federal regulations even further.
The problem is that no one gives a damn that the bureaucrats are running things and making the rules, laws actually, unless the bureaucrats making laws directly impacts them. Strangling farmers and ranchers with red tape and massive regulations, who cares? 99% of Americans are not farmers or ranchers. And who gives a damn if we run farming and ranching offshore to Brazil and Argentina, and our manufacturing to China and India nations that do not practice environmentally friendly procedures?
President Trump will not change the revolving door of rules and regulations being made laws, as they favor his vision of America. The left under President Biden did not change the practice, as it worked in his favor. The Congress just sits back and gets rich bitching about the problems, not solving them.
Both Presidents changed laws and rules at the pleasure of the ruling class. The progressive, socialist, radical environmentalists, using executive orders and environmental regulations, made an unholy alliance with the corporate giants to export our pollution offshore to nations that are already toxic. Absolute proof is the Democrats out fund rising the Republicans darn near two and a half to one, most donated by the Wall Street and Silicon Valley billionaires, now known as “the donor class.
Before folks ask how I can say that with President Trump and Elon Musk being billionaires, please remember that we have nearly 800 billionaires in the United States. My opinion.
