Recently, the media has sounded an alarm that a potential second term for Donald Trump would quickly descend into despotism. Trump playfully fueled this fear when he recently said he would act as a “dictator” on “Day 1” and then not do so after that point.
This fear mostly comes from ignorance and bias. Thinking the former president can install a tyranny likely overstates his abilities. But the particular reforms proposed by those around him show the accusation’s weakness.
These reforms seek to give the president greater control over bureaucratic agencies through proposals like making it easier to fire bureaucrats who refuse to obey presidential directives or who just slow-walk them to undermine their implementation.
Our system of bureaucratic government contradicts our constitutional structure in two ways.
First, the bureaucratic system violates the Constitution's separation of powers.
Agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency write regulations that hold the force of law.
Every political system has a sovereign, some person or persons who hold the ultimate ruling authority.
Many of the concrete proposals for a new Trump - or really any new Republican administration - will seek to push back toward our constitutional system by reforming its bureaucratic competitor.
Unlike our modern, superimposed Administrative State, our constitutional system has the checks to push against that.
https://spectator.org/debunking-false-alarmism-surrounding-a-second-trump-administration/
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