David Frum’s “How to Build an Autocracy” is a disturbing vision of what we have to look forward to under Donald J. Trump. The question is what to do about his total capture of the reigns of power where demonstrations against him only validate his actions among his supporters and Republican’s rural base will lead party leaders by the nose to do his bidding. The answer is to dismantle those reigns of power that Progressive’s pursued to Federalize the Constitution to the detriment of States Rights with the expectation that the central government would always be lead by an elite.
The tool to dismantle is original meaning as practiced by Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas. The great deviation in the interpretation of the commerce clause of the Constitution began when Congress used it as justification to enact the Interstate Commerce act of 1887. The ICC had a long history in government meddling until it was finally abolished in 1995. Despite its demise its legacy of central government meddling grew exponentially from four cabinet positions to fifteen; the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs from the original four. It's a dangerous array of tools to hand over to a deplorable whose natural instinct is toward crony capitalism.
De-Federalizing Washington is a long term direction; short term, States should look inward to solve and serve its citizens. Its what the founding fathers intended. California, for example, should ignore Washington and do what it prefers so that if it wants to be the sanctuary state then ask federal officials enforcing Trump's will to leave. If marijuana legalization creates a bank cash problem then charter State Banks to allow transactions to be settled in alternates to cash as a crime control measure and ignore Federal bank regulations disallowing it. And the list goes on.
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