Despite the outbursts of the Marxist left, Donald Trump is not acting like a dictator or like a king. He IS, however, governing as the executive — a position clearly outlined in the Constitution and to which a majority of voters elected him last fall. Despite this Constitutional behavior and democratic mandate, the left hails everything President Trump does as a “threat to democracy!” The more the left talks, the clearer it becomes that the only threat is against the left’s institutional power.
President Trump and his cabinet secretaries are cleaning house. They are cutting fraudulent spending, canceling wasteful contracts, and firing excess federal workers — the very things he said he would do and the American public elected him to accomplish! And yet the left throws up legal and judicial roadblocks against Trump, his cabinet, and DOGE, at every turn.
The Marxist left and the globalist neo-cons alike are melting down at the very idea that Trump would fulfill his promises. The once-relevant Bill Kristol claimed that Trump’s actions aren’t about “reforming” government entities, but about “breaking all institutional resistance to Trump.”
Let’s get one thing straight: there should be no “institutional resistance to Trump.” That’s not how the Constitution works. As we explained last month about “unitary executive” theory, Article II of the Constitution places the executive Power in a President. Nowhere is an independent set of bureaucracies mentioned. In fact, the very acknowledgement that there’s some kind of “institutional resistance” to Trump proves the existence of the Deep State and the rightness of Trump’s federal firings and cuts.
The Supreme Court clearly addressed this in United States v. Arthrex, Inc. (2021), writing that the unelected officials hold “legitimacy and accountability” only “through ‘a clear and effective chain of command’ down from the President, on whom all the people vote.”
So, what is the real threat to so-called American democracy? The left wants you to believe that executive branch employees are independent from our unitary executive, the President of the United States. This is an unacceptable perversion of our Constitution.
