Hope? Or cope?
As can be fairly said of so much else these days, it remains to be seen.
The Great Reclamation has begun. The Supreme Court just restored Trump’s constitutional power to remove rogue commissioners from federal agencies. For the first time in ninety years, the President can clean house. The walls of bureaucratic tyranny are cracking.
Since 1935, the presidency has been a hostage. A hidden ruling called Humphrey’s Executor v. United States created a shield around unelected bureaucrats buried inside so-called independent agencies. They could not be fired. Not by Congress. Not by the people. Not even by the Commander in Chief. These were the Deep State’s castles inside the government. Protected. Untouchable. Writing rules with the power of law while answering to no one. For decades, they dictated policy, destroyed accountability, and made every president a figurehead in his own house.
That ended this week.
In a ruling few expected but history will never forget, the Supreme Court confirmed that President Trump has full constitutional authority to remove Democratic commissioners Mary Boyle, Richard Trumka Jr, and Alexander Hoehn-Saric from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Court reminded the nation that executive power belongs to the President alone. Not to agencies. Not to boards. Not to faceless lawyers.
The 6-3 decision has detonated the foundation of bureaucratic immunity. Trump can now terminate any commissioner who obstructs reform, dismantle ideological mandates, and reclaim executive control over agencies that have operated like private empires. The ruling sets a precedent that can sweep through every corner of the federal maze — FTC, SEC, NLRB, CDC, FDA, DOE. Hundreds of unelected operators who hid behind the term “independent” are now exposed.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is only the beginning. Nearly 700 positions across Washington fall under the same model. With this judgment, Trump holds the legal weapon he was denied in his first term. The sword is back in his hands.
Inside the Deep State, panic has already begun. For decades, they didn’t need to win elections. They only needed to control who stayed behind. By embedding loyal operatives inside untouchable posts, they guaranteed their agenda survived every presidency. They wrote laws under the cover of regulation. They censored industries through “safety standards.” They shifted policy without ever standing for a vote. That structure is now collapsing.The Great Reclamation has begun. The Supreme Court just restored Trump’s constitutional power to remove rogue commissioners from federal agencies. For the first time in ninety years, the President can clean house. The walls of bureaucratic tyranny are cracking.
If true and accurate, the thrust of this brief but heartening post is nigh-on guaranteed to bring a smile to every Real American face. Myself, I remain just skeptical and cynical enough to harbor a doubt or three. Then again, though, the piece’s author is one Vox Day, a feller who, if he ever has been accused of excessive optimism or credulousness before I sure wasn’t aware of it, and probably wouldn’t have believed a breath of it if I had been, either.
We’ll find out soon enough whether or not it’s the genuinely article, I suppose. As Reagan repeatedly admonished his Soviet adversaries after learning of the phrase’s Russian origin from a White House staffer: Trust, but verify. Doesn’t quite fit the bill in this particular case, but it’s always excellent advice just the same.
There could be plenty of reasons why Trump wouldn’t put this likely decisive decision to best use immediately, none of which I think are very persuasive coming from the mouth of a President who has not only opined a great deal about his intention to “drain the Swamp,” but has himself been victimized, both professionally and personally, by vicious Swamp critters wh0 cloak themselves and their perfidious machinations beneath the aforementioned 1935 ruling, exactly as Vox says they have.
Trump has been victimized, I should say, to an extent and with a distempered, vengeful mania to inflict punishment as hadn’t ever been heard of throughout the annals of Western Civ until now.
If Vox’s analysis holds up, and Trump inexplicably elects to stay his hand against the pestilential plague-rats scuttling noisily within the Deep State walls anyhow (CAVEAT: I expect no such betrayal from him, and would be deeply shocked and dismayed by one), well, the best I could say about that revoltin’ development is that America as founded, the US Constitution, and the great experiment in self-governance, ordered liberty, and individual self-determination launched by our blessed Forefathers are all well and truly over.
A-yup, in that event it is definitely done. America That Was is gone for good and can never be brought back. We lost, the Sick Left prevailed, and the time has arrived for this calamitous outcome to be acknowledged fully, openly, and unequivocally by both vanquished and victor alike. No longer is there time, space, or necessity for continuing to prattle on and on, CSA-style, in both lamentation and celebration of a Cause that was Lost ages ago, whether said tiresome prattlers “had all the guns” or no.
"And finally we shall entrench ourselves so as to laugh at the cabals of the commonalty. A few regiments will do at first; it must be spread abroad that they are absolutely necessary to defend the frontiers. Now a regiment and then a legion must be added quietly; by and by a frigate or two must be built, still taking care to intimate that they are essential to the support of our revenue laws and to prevent smuggling. We have said nothing about a bill of rights, for we viewed it as an eternal clog upon our designs, as a lock chain to the wheels of government-though, by the way, as we have not insisted on rotation in our offices, the simile of a wheel is ill. We have for some time considered the freedom of the press as a great evil-it spreads information, and begets a licentiousness in the people which needs the rein more than the spur; besides, a daring printer may expose the plans of government and lessen the consequence of our president and senate-for these and many other reasons we have said nothing with respect to the “right of the people to speak and publish their sentiments” or about their “palladiums of liberty” and such stuff. We do not much like that sturdy privilege of the people-the right to demand the writ of habeas corpus. We have therefore reserved the power of refusing it in cases of rebellion, and you know we are the judges of what is rebellion…. Our friends we find have been assiduous in representing our federal calamities, until at length the people at large-frightened by the gloomy picture on one side, and allured by the prophecies of some of our fanciful and visionary adherents on the other-are ready to accept and confirm our proposed government without the delay or forms of examination–which was the more to be wished, as they are wholly unfit to investigate the principles or pronounce on the merit of so exquisite a system.
Impressed with a conviction that this constitution is calculated to restrain the influence and power of the LOWER CLASS-to draw that discrimination we have so long sought after; to secure to our friends privileges and offices, which were not to be … [obtained] under the former government, because they were in common; to take the burden of legislation and attendance on public business off the commonalty, who will be much better able thereby to prosecute with effect their private business; to destroy that political thirteen headed monster, the state sovereignties; to check the licentiousness of the people by making it dangerous to speak or publish daring or tumultuary sentiments; to enforce obedience to laws by a strong executive, aided by military pensioners; and finally to promote the public and private interests of the better kind of people..." https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/just-for-the-record-antifederalist - sounds awfully familiar... almost like The Atlantic magazine, on current events.