April 15, 2025
What Trump is missing
By Jay Davidson
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
—James Madison (1788)James Madison understood the dangers of a federal bureaucracy, and the Administrative State, 135 years before Woodrow Wilson started our current leftward swing in 1911.
In fact, our Founding Fathers understood the mechanism by which a tyrant holds power. For this reason, our founders created a Constitution specifically written to protect the individual from central control, including the tyranny of the majority over the minority.
This is the argument Trump and company should be making, but they are not. He is doing the work; he should articulate why.
For over 100 years, Americans have been stewing in the misperception that government is the solution to any and all problems, even when the evidence is overwhelming that not only can government not solve problems, but it is the source of greater problems. Yet we persist in this misperception. We unconsciously rely on a rule or regulation to protect us, thereby abdicating our personal responsibility for self-preservation and empowering a regulator to do our thinking for us.
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