Legislative overreach

In American Greatness, Auguste Meyrat writes,

...the federal government has grown substantially since its founding, and the states now have far less power. Two centuries ago, people viewed their federal legislators as marginal officials who would represent them as they voted on relatively remote questions that had little bearing on their states or their daily lives—a bit like U.N. ambassadors. Today, these legislators represent special-interest groups, not their states, and vote on all matters affecting their constituents; the states in turn have to acquiesce and pay the tab.

...The lack of accountability (indeed, virtual anonymity) for legislators results in an elite class of politicians almost completely disconnected from reality. The recent filibuster against a bill that would keep babies alive who survive abortions—as opposed to murdering them—is the latest example of this. Votes in favor of increasing spending and entitlements when the national debt already exceeds $22 trillion, and, yes, incoherent immigration laws, also betray a pattern of fantasy thinking.

...Consequently, all the Democratic senators now offering themselves as presidential candidates—coming as they do from this mix— have bad records and even worse judgment. Only a senator could be deluded enough to support socialism, or propose open borders, or make up imaginary ancestry or imaginary friends, or advocate reparations for slavery 150 years after it was abolished—and only a senator could get away with it.

...By contrast, a Republican president will face full scrutiny at all times. Besides what he does as president, Americans will know President Trump’s romantic partners, his business history, the doings of everyone in his family tree, his dietary restrictions, and every rumor circulated about him and his family. When he runs for reelection next year, everyone will expect him to account for every one of these musings while his opponent will make ridiculous promises that the mainstream media doubtlessly will pound into normal currency.

In a country plagued with corrupt legislators who shirk their responsibilities and a biased media that is every bit as beholden to the special interests propping up the legislature, it has become clear that Americans are safer putting their trust in the president than in Congress—particularly when that Congress is filled with today’s Democrats.

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