President Trump should dismantle the Deep State

The best way to fight the Deep State is by returning to the sovereign states the authority vested in them by the Tenth Amendment.

David French is correct in his assessment that President Trump wants to accrue more power to himself, but we should not forget that Trump is sabotaging his own agenda by expanding the authority of the Executive Branch.

For eight years, Trump and Republicans generally have railed against the "Deep State," the unelected bureaucracy that is able to make "rules" with the force of law but is not directly accountable to the voters. This complaint goes back to well before Trump became a Republican, to the 2010 Tea Party wave, the 1994 Republican wave, and the inspiring speech in 1964 by future President Reagan about expanding federal power. Constitutional conservatives have warned against expanding federal power since well before French and I were born.

Does President Trump not realize that expanding the power of the Executive Branch will further empower and strengthen the very "Deep State" he feels has frustrated his agenda and personally targeted him? The problem is not that we have the "wrong" personnel in positions of regulatory and prosecutorial authority. The problem is that the expanded authority exists at all.

So, yes, President Trump should seek to root out and eliminate corruption in the "Deep State," but the only way to do that is to dismantle the bureaucracy itself. Only by returning legislative and regulatory authority back to Congress, and (more importantly) returning to the sovereign states the authority vested in them by the Tenth Amendment over nearly all domestic policy, can President Trump fulfill his promise to "Make America Great Again" and restore liberty to our citizens. Sadly, I do not expect a lifelong New York City liberal to truly understand the need to shrink the federal government and reduce the federal government’s authority.

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