Let us consider the proper role of each branch of government, and how it was envisioned, versus how it is currently operating. Now we take the Executive, the only branch to wield the ultimate authority of government: violence, through the ordering of the military, and federal police powers. This builds in an asymmetry that was ostensibly overcome by the constitutional provision of coequality of branches. The Executive was to be strong, yet dutifully subservient to the will of the people, and of the states, as exercised through the legislature writing good, necessary, and clear laws, and to the courts when upholding a correct reading of the Constitution as understood by the founders.
Today, the Executive looks more a King than an administrator of just laws. Domestically, the Executive co-rules his fiefdom with the bureaucratic (“deep”) state of Progressive “experts,” inwardly focused police-state apparatus, and uncertainly subservient intelligence and kinetic warfare divisions. These various co-rulers are the efficacious Progressive heart of the Executive ensuring fealty to doctrine, always forwarding the march towards the end of History, and perpetual revolution. In this manner the sole (unitary) Executive has seemingly lost even more power to the bureaucrats than he has gained through usurpation from the legislature, courts, and states.
The permanent Progressive state resembles an immune system when faced with invading American traditionalist ideology. It abides not the slightest tinge of star-spangling, nor under-God-ing. The “Cathedral” is bound up with private sector concerns from all major industries, and with them pulls the strings from behind the scenes manipulating the joints of the leviathan to block any efforts at reform. The killer cells are released through networks of attorneys, NGOs, and intelligence officials to create a never-ending flow of shade and controversy to destabilize, and flush away any man of the people come to bring them to heel.
The Executive, as a whole, now encompasses a tripartite branch unto itself, with the bureaucracy writing the specifics into vague legislation through an army of lawyers – sometimes making it up whole cloth, and administrative judges appointed mostly by Progressive executives judge the actions of the Executive instead of the Judiciary in many cases, and even adjudicate penalties on private citizens – there’s veritable mountains of administrative law with criminal penalties attached.
This ever-growing, vigorous Progressive administrative State has slowly made the Judicial, but especially the Legislative branches vestigial organs of the otherwise decrepit old body of American sovereignty. The Executive has never again had to tell the Supreme Court to enforce their own decisions, as since, at least, FDR, the court has yielded to unconstitutional executive moves to protect its own waning power from the prospect of the only branch with guns to order ordering them turned towards kinetic revolution against the court. It is this dynamic that prevents the court from ever taking action to restrain the executive: alas, who would they turn to against Executive guns? They certainly don’t hold the people in such regard to think them ever a solution. They don’t look to the first clause of the second amendment as anything more than a vulgar recipe in a foreign cookbook.
The Executive no longer recognizes the constraints of American sovereignty placed on his powers regarding foreign policy. He is now the “top cop” for the entire world, or, perhaps, the bureaucratic hefe of the new world order, and the particular interests of Americans no longer restrain him from exercising authority on behalf of aliens, be they Europeans, Afghans, Canadians, Mexicans, or any other “global citizen,” as they are the primary charge of the American Executive under the doctrine of globalism.
What we’ve lost, in summary:
· Direct Republican control over the most dangerous branch of government, and the guns it wields.
· Faithful enforcement of good law, and Constitution.
· Refusal to enforce unjust laws, and exercise tyranny over the people.
· The ability to live a good and moral life on the right side of law enforcement.