Kyle HughesWe are presently living through the worst-case scenario of the administrative state given to a bad actor. It gives me great pause. Is there any way forward without dismantling it?
If hardening our democratic institutions meant becoming a Pocket Constitution person and advocating for the rights of gun ownership, could you do it?
Kirk van Gorkom@kyle I was that person as a young man. While I don’t miss that version of myself, he wasn’t wrong about everything and I could do it again if necessary.
However, electing a functional congress willing to do their job of legislating and thereby re-establish balance of powers seems like a much more tractable solution to executive overreach.
@kvangork How do we eradicate this threat long-term? We have proven that we are willing to hand the administrative state to a bad actor–how do we change our incentives so we never do that again?
Personally, I don't think we can without giving up other liberties. This is now in my threat model.
FWIW, a Congress that can legislate also reduces the need for the administrative state, and that may feed into a flywheel of incentivizing focus on Congressional elections because they have effect.
@kyle pocket constitution copies for everyone will fix it forever! 😉
My theory (wildly implausible) is that having now seen evidence of the potential for administrative state abuses, we’ll dismantle it and choose to accept the tradeoffs of necessarily slower-moving legislative solutions.
@kvangork for whatever it’s worth, that is exactly where I have landed