America's Constitutional Crisis:
Year 1 of Trump's second term was a libertarian's nightmare How Civic Illiteracy, Executive Overreach, Electoral Manipulation, and the Administrative State Are Dismantling the Founders' Vision BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): The constitutional machinery created in 1787 to prevent monarchical power is failing due to converging crises: aggressive executive expansion across multiple administrations, congressional abdication creating a vacuum filled by unelected administrative agencies that now wield quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, and quasi-judicial power, both parties manipulating electoral systems for partisan advantage, and catastrophic collapse in civic education. The administrative state—nowhere mentioned in the Constitution—combines the very powers Madison warned would constitute "the very definition of tyranny." This fourth branch persists across elections, often resisting elected officials' directives, creating a barrier between citizens and their gov...
