There are, of course, the very same trepidation about Mr. Trump as there were about Obama....no track record, untrained in politics, not a constitutional scholar, and, as far as is known, not a student of history.
Yet...some of the early moves, cabinet picks....seem to suggest better outcomes than expected.
He may just be the right man at the right time.....
1. America was not founded to be a monarchy....much less a dictatorship.
But the ascendant political philosophy, Liberalism, is, as is every totalitarian doctrine, based on a centralized government with all the power and no restrictions.
As are these versions: communism, socialism, Nazism, Fascism and Progressivism.
2. That's not America.
"Our Founders envisioned the states as laboratories of democracy and enshrined into our Constitution the principle of federalism. Under federalist principles, the American people endowed the national government with a defined set of limited, enumerated powers in the Constitution. Any powers beyond those specifically given to the federal government fall entirely within the province of the states. Federalism protects liberty by protecting against the overreaching of any one branch of our federal government, and is part of the uniquely American system of checks and balances."
Paloma Zepeda, "Reinventing the Right."
a. The idea that the reach of the federal government would be restricted to a few enumerated powers is articulated by Madison in Federalist No. 45:
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."
b. And, further explaining the limitations on the federal government, we find the 10th amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
3. Whether consciously or intuitively, the American people sensed that a Trump victory would nudge the nation back on the path blazed by our Founders, one in which power is shared between the federal government and the states.
How could he have recognized this, given his background....but Mr. Trump has chosen a strict states-rights task master to rule over the most blatant of the power-grabbing of agencies....the EPA.
4. "... Trump had barely finished announcing his pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency before the left started listing its million reasons why Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was the worst nomination in the history of the planet: He’s an untrained anti-environmentalist. He’s a polluter. He’s a fossil-fuel fanatic, a lobbyist-lover, a climate crazy.
5. Mr. Pruitt is not any of those things. Here’s what he in fact is, and the real reason the left is frustrated: He’s a constitutional scholar, a federalist (and a lawyer). And for those reasons he is a sublime choice to knock down the biggest conceit of the Obama era—arrogant, overweening (and illegal) Washington rule."
Trump’s Federalist Revival
A return to our heritage?
A government founded on federalism?
One can only hope.
Yet...some of the early moves, cabinet picks....seem to suggest better outcomes than expected.
He may just be the right man at the right time.....
1. America was not founded to be a monarchy....much less a dictatorship.
But the ascendant political philosophy, Liberalism, is, as is every totalitarian doctrine, based on a centralized government with all the power and no restrictions.
As are these versions: communism, socialism, Nazism, Fascism and Progressivism.
2. That's not America.
"Our Founders envisioned the states as laboratories of democracy and enshrined into our Constitution the principle of federalism. Under federalist principles, the American people endowed the national government with a defined set of limited, enumerated powers in the Constitution. Any powers beyond those specifically given to the federal government fall entirely within the province of the states. Federalism protects liberty by protecting against the overreaching of any one branch of our federal government, and is part of the uniquely American system of checks and balances."
Paloma Zepeda, "Reinventing the Right."
a. The idea that the reach of the federal government would be restricted to a few enumerated powers is articulated by Madison in Federalist No. 45:
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."
b. And, further explaining the limitations on the federal government, we find the 10th amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
3. Whether consciously or intuitively, the American people sensed that a Trump victory would nudge the nation back on the path blazed by our Founders, one in which power is shared between the federal government and the states.
How could he have recognized this, given his background....but Mr. Trump has chosen a strict states-rights task master to rule over the most blatant of the power-grabbing of agencies....the EPA.
4. "... Trump had barely finished announcing his pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency before the left started listing its million reasons why Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was the worst nomination in the history of the planet: He’s an untrained anti-environmentalist. He’s a polluter. He’s a fossil-fuel fanatic, a lobbyist-lover, a climate crazy.
5. Mr. Pruitt is not any of those things. Here’s what he in fact is, and the real reason the left is frustrated: He’s a constitutional scholar, a federalist (and a lawyer). And for those reasons he is a sublime choice to knock down the biggest conceit of the Obama era—arrogant, overweening (and illegal) Washington rule."
Trump’s Federalist Revival
A return to our heritage?
A government founded on federalism?
One can only hope.
