In the 1990's, many of my Republican scout leaders would say, although Hitler was a monster, he did a lot of positive things for Germany like the Autobaun and Volkswagen. I find myself thinking about this more and more. Many of the executive orders benefit me and my family. I support many policies like cutting government spending. I was a big fan of the bipartisan balanced budget in the 90's and think the national debt is the biggest threat to the dollar. I think the cuts are necessary, but there is just one problem: I don't think the executive branch of government should have absolute power. I was too young to vote for Ross Perot, but loved his message about NAFTA sucking jobs away from America and I was a fan of George Bush's attempt at the privatized Social Security, but he did not sign an Executive Order to do it. It went by the wayside after 9/11. So did the 4th amendment along with many of our civil liberties. The rhetoric claims to support the 1st amendment because of religious freedom, but legal immigrants no longer enjoy the freedom of speech without the threat of deportation? It doesn't matter if El Salvador gets to stack $20k worth of sats for each prisoner- It is not a just law. The TikTok thing also bothers me. I don't use TikTok. I don't like the idea of giving my data to the Chinese government and I'm not a lawyer, but I disagree with the Supreme Court ruling on TikTok. I think code is speech, and TikTok writes code. Therefore this code should be protected by the first amendment. Nevertheless, I am having a difficult time understanding how a bill banning the app, signed into law by a sitting president( the fact that he was our enemy is a moot point), and upheld by the Supreme Court can be overturned by Executive Order for 75 days. Biden had an Executive Order that forgave student loans. The Supreme Court ruled it was unconditional. What if Biden signed an Executive Order saying 5% of student loans will be forgiven after the Supreme Court's decision? Would Republicans have been okay with this? I somehow doubt it. I wouldn't be okay with that either even though it would save me money. Dan Carlin released a political podcast about this a couple weeks ago. It's the first one in Three years. He's influenced my thoughts about Executive Orders for years so I tend to agree with historical political takes.

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Carlin says Trump is becoming autocratic. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, wrote letters warning against autocratic leaders. It makes sense, given that the root word of Republican is Republic. Backlinks No backlinks