Their Collective’ Comes for Our Republic & The Tyranny of Experts

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Their Collective’ Comes for Our Republic
Defending the rights of the disfavored and demeaned is to defend the rights of all.
By Thaddeus G. McCotter August 13, 2021

As citizens of our free republic, we must reciprocally, dutifully, and staunchly defend the liberty and freedom of conscience of our fellow citizens against the onslaught of the authoritarian leftist collective. Securing liberty for those the collective deems disfavored has always been difficult, and it remains so today when “Their Collective” is forging an authoritarian template to impose upon us. But defending the rights of the disfavored remains the first, best, and last protection against collectivism. When the individual, God-given, unalienable rights of all Americans are staunchly defended, the result is voluntary community, not coerced collectivism. And, as history instructs, without coerced collectivism the crimes of authoritarianism and totalitarianism would never have been committed.

 

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The Tyranny of Experts
Understanding the origins of the administrative state goes a long way towards grasping how policy is really made today in American government
By Ronald J. Pestritto August 13, 2021

In what follows, the relevance of original progressivism to government today will be more fully explored. There is no better place to begin than with our administrative state. This essay deals with the general principles of the administrative state and its roots in the original progressive movement.


Modern administrative law largely focuses on sorting out power between judges and agency administrators. Understanding how that plays out goes a long way towards grasping how policy is really made today in American government. And it rests on a set of critical legal doctrines that have been established in the judiciary since the New Deal.