Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“According to a Wall Street Journal story, some members of Congress are beginning to start waking up to the current president’s power grab …. Budget and tariff policy are two areas where some suspect that Congress should not have delegated so much power to the president. It could happen here, ‘it’ being despotism of the harder sort than the Tocquevillian soft sort that we have already gotten used to. Instances of the problem are too numerous to be listed here. My post of yesterday suggests that one man has apparently been granted the power to close America to the rest of the world if he feels like it. Let me mention three other incidents that seem symptomatic of a general rejection of anything that looks like the remnants of classical liberalism.” (03/05/25)