In Article II, Section 1, it says "The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." The Constitution also says that there are two other branches of government designed to check executive authority, known as Congress and the Supreme Court.
What really freaks the left out isn't that Trump and many other conservatives want greater control over the executive branch, it's that they are finally getting serious about taking on the fourth branch of government.
Huge chunks of the federal government can and do thwart the agenda voters elected the president to enact.
As Don Devine, who was the director of the Office of Personnel Management in President Ronald Reagan's first term, put it, "An autonomous bureaucracy has neither independent constitutional status nor separate moral legitimacy." This fourth branch of government isn't a problem when Democrats are in the White House, because most federal bureaucrats want the same thing they do - a bigger and more intrusive government.
Also worth noting is that when a Democratic president seeks to purge the government of political opponents, they are celebrated.
Shortly after President Joe Biden took office, the Washington Post wrote a glowing story about how he was cleaning house of Trump holdovers and why it was a good thing.
"As Biden tries to reset the government to match his priorities," it reported back in 2021, "Democrats fear the Trump holdovers, who served in partisan roles, could undermine the new administration as they move into the civil service, which is supposed to operate free of partisanship." The Post went on to showcase how Biden was "Showing a willingness to cut tenures short" and had quickly moved "To dump several of high-profile, Senate-confirmed Trump appointees whose terms extended beyond Inauguration Day - in some cases by several years." Try as we might, we could not find a single story that compared Biden to Hitler for taking such actions.
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