When Joe Biden was president, Republicans rightly complained that he often abused his power in doing things such as canceling student debts. They also rightly complained when the federal government used the power of state and local authorities. De Gop is traditionally seen as the preference of “federalism”.
Was the Gop complaint about the president who exceeded his constitutional authority, or was the actual complaint that the president exceeded his constitutional authority While they pursue the objectives of the Democratic Party? Maybe this Can answer the question:
President Trump and his new transport secretary, Sean P. Duffy, made it sound like their strength to pull the plug from New York City six weeks old congestion -pricing program Was absolutely.
Mr Duffy, who is working for less than a month, wrote to the Governor of New York on Wednesday That “I concluded” that the toll program, implemented after a debilitating, years of process, is not “eligible” under the federal status that was used to perform it.
Mr. Trump’s statement was even less complex: he Press the CAPS-Lock button And called his authority as ‘king’.
“Congest prizes are death, Manhattan,” the president wrote on social media, “and the whole of New York is saved. Long live the king!”
Old readers know that I am not the biggest fan of Trump of the president. But in this case I give him the honor for honesty. In the past, commentators have taken me over the coal because they claimed that Trump had authoritarian tendencies. I am glad that I no longer have to make those arguments; I can only quote from the president’s own statements.
The New York congestion plan had reduced traffic congestion, despite the fact that it was poorly designed with regard to congestie prices in some other major cities. If the courts maintain Trump’s decision (which is not at all certain), we can expect NYC traffic to get worse.
I have noticed a recent trend in American political/policy -making. Politics increasingly seems to be a kind of performance art. So trolls is no longer just a technique used in some situations, it has become part of the policy process. While Donald Trump is the master of the art of trolling, the trend is filtered to the local level.
A few miles from where I live is the famous surf city of Huntington Beach. (VAT, California suburbs are large – HB has 200,000 inhabitants.) Huntington Beach recently decided to place a plaque outside the city library. Moreover, they decided to spend some money Defend the plaque:
Councilor Gracey van der Mark, who submitted the updated design, also said that the council had collected an extra $ 1,000 extra to pay for a spotlight installation to protect the plaque against vandalism.
You may wonder why a city would assume that he had to spend taxpayers funds to defend a plaque outside a library. See if you can guess why the city council was nervous:
Public policy as trolls.
Ps. A brief follow -up to my previous message. Niall Ferguson had this recently (answer to JD Vance):
In the past three years, I have said more than once that the war would not have happened if President Trump had been re -elected in 2020. I supported his re -election campaign last year, predicted and your victory consistently and welcomed the “atmosphere shift” that victory represented. I also supported the previous calls of the president to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine. So I’m not sure if I really qualify as a globalist. I even agree with all five points you make. Indeed, I praised your speech from Munich. . . . But I just can’t understand the logic of starting a negotiation so difficult by admitting so many crucial points to Russia.
Those among us who have understood Trump from the beginning are not surprised at all by what we see. Trump repeated Putin even when he campaigned in 2016. It is a shame that so many intellectuals have not taken his comments seriously and are now stunned by what is happening.