Democrats have always been effective in advancing their open objective of despotism, one way or another:
- With a senate supermajority across Obama’s first two years in office, Democrats united to produce the focused change of Obamacare.
- With the presidency nominally under an incompetent Biden, Democrats used an unelected executive cabal to advance broad, multipronged actions, including further-increased spending, further-increased regulation, more illegal immigration, more cultural transformation, and new persecution of political opponents.
Republicans’ coming governance has begun with two opening actions.
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First, current house speaker Mike Johnson led majorities of Republicans in both houses in passing continued funding that continued all current spending and that also added $110 billion in national-government spending earmarked for disaster relief and farmers. Trump subsequently endorsed Johnson to be reelected speaker.
Second, Trump’s advisors Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy championed increased work visas.
Republicans’ plans have always only been distractions—no attempts to decisively increase people’s freedom; instead, only dizzying lists of second-order relative minutia:
- House Freedom Caucus board members have called generally for significant cuts in borrowing and spending but with no specifics, and have called specifically for legislation on immigration, Biden-Harris policies, healthcare freedom, voting, and congressmen’s stock trading.
- Trump’s campaign Agenda 47 was a list of 20 core promises. None have even been developed into plausible outlines for legislative bills or executive orders.
In short, Republicans don’t have actionable plans to help voters.
Republican Progressives distract voters to get their real objective accomplished: inflating and regulating to pay off cronies and in return get further campaign donations.
Republican relative-conservatives care about voters, but are doomed to fail. Either they insistently reach out to Republican Progressives who don’t care, or they themselves don’t know how to limit governments, or both. One way or the other, these Republicans don’t identify processes and milestones that will limit despotic spending and regulating.
All that’s needed is actually simple: Stop fighting over how to control the people more, and start repealing all the built-up despotism.
To appreciate what actions will work, we need to first understand enough about how constitutional processes are designed to work. Here are two key, almost-universally misunderstood points about what processes are constitutional:
- Congressmen have been grabbing executive power to allocate budgets by line item. This has been violating the fundamental separation of powers, creating weak presidencies that don’t limit congressmen’s despotism.
Instead, congressmen must pass a single overall-total appropriation that will genuinely limit presidents’ spending. Presidents must then allocate this overall appropriation, making tradeoffs to best enforce the actual statutory laws.
Actual laws consist of rules plus sanctions, nothing more.
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Many bills get enacted by going through the motions as if the result is law, but they are not lawful. These include all kinds of unconstitutional attempts to grab executive power—by dictating organizational structures, limiting hiring and firing, allocating budgets, requiring reporting, and more. The congressmen who make these attempts are despotic. The presidents who accede to these attempts and refuse to limit these congressmen are despots.
- Senates’ rules on filibuster and cloture have unconstitutionally given minority senators’ votes more weight than majority senators’ votes. The new senate’s president JD Vance must not uphold these unconstitutional house rules and instead must uphold his oath to support the Constitution.
The result—fast, extensive change—is always best for freedom. Either from the start it’s for the better, or from the start it’s for the worse and this provokes pushback that soon enough ends up for the better.
Once we appreciate what are the constitutional approaches to the overall appropriation and to filibusters, we see that nothing stops Republican conservatives from moving to end the seemingly-interminable inflationary spending and stagnating regulation by taking the substantial actions listed in the table.
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