QUOTE: The glitch is here: the polite left, the Ivy educated, the ones who think they know better, have circumvented the constitution, the balance of powers, and created a super-state, an entirely Prussian monster, a throwback to the days of Kings, the Star Chamber and tyranny, an abrogation of all power to themselves. They judge themselves, they never suffer consequences for their failures. Across the board, they have placed themselves above the law.Their fate will be the same as Charles 1, who tried the same thing, beheaded in public.
Philip Hamburger, America’s acknowledged expert on the Administrative State, and the man who brought down Chevron, points out, “the gain in popular suffrage has been accompanied by disdain for the choices made through a representative system and a corresponding shift of legislative power out of Congress.”
If the statute is silent or ambiguous, the bureaucrat decides. Law deference. This translated to near everything.
Chevron, brought and won in 1984 by the Rockefeller-founded Natural Resource Defence Council, (NDRC) was all about the Rockefeller push to sequester resources from “the people” and de-develop the earth in order to “save” it. Chevron morphed fast into destroying the economy in order to “save” it. It was the first incursion into American governance in the plan to create a World Government, a massive over-arching Administrative State that would control everything not nailed down.
The knock-on effects were legion, literally demonic and beyond counting. It moved power into the homogenized class of Ivy Leaguers who think they know better and actually know nothing about real life. It severely threatened civil liberties, it gutted the judiciary, it gutted Congress, it put all the power in the executive, the office of the President who directed the agencies. It made Congressmen and women into fundraisers and stripped them of their primary duty to collaborate while writing statutes. It made them trivial showmen. It stripped the will of the people from their government.
Chevron Deference started all this. It was an artful, sleazy, triumph for the enemies of democracy. It meant that in any situation the government always won. If you questioned the statement by government that there is no water for your housing development, your ranch, your farm, asserting that it hadn’t been investigated properly, any politician or judge would shrug and say, “The Department of Interior’s hydrologists say so”.
Chevron gave all the agencies the power to make regulation without Congress having directed them to do so. At the other end Deference eliminated judicial review of their actions.
In the real world, where real adults, not Ivy League children, function, build families and towns and businesses, all through the U.S., agencies ran roughshod over every business which required water, air, and land in which to operate, and has been doing so for forty years. Add in emission reductions, and another layer of absurdist regulation crushes enterprise. Every country, region, state and province, small town, county, agricultural zone, National, state, regional park region, every resort town, every ranching county has a Policy Statement and ancillary documents which determine its future. And they are all directed from above and focused on de-growth, de-population.
The administrative state that was powering all this was extractive, it feared creative destruction, feared growth, and turned the whole culture inward, fighting for the power to restrict humanity, and inevitably turning us towards instability. The knowledge class fighting to imprison us complains about the instability they themselves created for their own personal gain. In the job market for knowledge workers, rather than create something, people compete for jobs to police, suppress and censor. This is the definition of a vicious circle and will bring down the whole human enterprise.
The great hulking largely unconscious dragon of the market reads the future better than anyone. Trump’s ascendance is clear, barring industrial cheating, and the striking down of Chevron Deference is key, it is everything, it clears the path towards an American resurgence, that can and will power the world.