It is to be expected that the left will point to the Mulvaney appointment as an authoritarian assault on democracy. To such leftist deviousness, this editorial observation in the Wall Street Journal, November 26, is worth noting: "Democrats created an executive-branch agency [the CFPB] insulated from Congressional appropriations and presidential control, and now they claim to be able to run it like a branch of government unto itself with a self-sustaining directorship." The editorial describes this view as "a perversion of constitutional government." Certainly, it is a perversion of representative government accountable to the people. As WSJ columnist William McGurn suggests in his November 28 column, the CFPB tug-of-war points out "to the American people what happens when federal power is divorced from democratic accountability."
But isn't this what The Resistance to the Trump presidency is all about – rejecting the election of the president of the United States by the processes set forth in the Constitution?
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