Conservative failure and the Administrative State

July 21, 2023 By John Dale Dunn

Conservatives have failed their fiduciary and political duty to stop and reverse the Administrative State growth and tyranny because they were tricked into believing that these things are necessary for a modern society.  Theo Wold, Trump policy aide, now solicitor general for Idaho, in this American Greatness essay, explains the origin of the socialist Administrative State project under FDR aide James Landis.

Wold asserts that Landis aggressively and massively expanded the federal government on his belief that socialism and a powerful Administrative State were the solution for modern societal problems.  FDR agreed with Landis.  Landis's position was that a strong Executive Branch is the solution for ineffective legislative and judicial branches.  His solution was an executive agency system that made laws, regulated, and had administrative judicial processes to enforce regulations. 

What the tripartite branches could not coordinate among them directly, Landis believed administrative agencies could coordinate as a substitute. Landis then aimed to create administrative agencies that themselves combined the three aspects of government.  

Wold describes the effects of the Administrative State from his experience in the Trump administration.  Bureaucrats have their own agenda.  They refused to implement Trump's policies promised to the electorate whenever and wherever they could, and they could — a lot,  on the border wall, education, and immigration.  "The idea that the federal bureaucracy is accountable to the president is a mirage."...............To Read More....