Source: The UnPopulist
by Thomas Zimmer
“The speed with which the right has, in just a few short years, entirely abandoned its supposedly principled commitment to curbing the power of the state in general and presidential Caesarism in particular is remarkable. During the Obama years, Republicans insisted that they had a constitutional obligation to oppose the White House’s dictatorial overreach. The Tea Party craze saw Republicans casting themselves as defenders of the Founders’ vision of small, responsible, unobtrusive government. The animating conservative concern — rhetorically if not often substantively — was government restraint to guarantee individual liberty: keeping the Nanny State out of people’s lives and insisting on government non-interference in business. Now, the same movement that derided Obama as a lawless tyrant every time he considered exerting power via a presidential executive order is urging President-elect Donald Trump to upend the system with precisely that instrument.” (12/19/24)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-budget-director-pick-would