The essence of TDS

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Originally Posted by spence

That's not what's on the ballot and this notion that Trump is somehow preserving anything resembling a Constitutional structure is idiotic.

It was a response to Pete F's post, not a specific item on the ballot. The ballot is mostly a bunch of names. Presumably, those names stand for something. What they stand for has a lot to do with the form of government we will have. That includes the structure of the Constitution.

Trump's actions and that of the party he represents have been way more within bounds of the Constitution than what Progressive Dems want the ability of the federal government to do. The whole Progressive notion of government by unbounded administrative power is outside the restrictions of the Constitution. The Progressive founding in this country specifically stated that the Constitution is no longer suitable for governing in our time. Honest Progressive academics including political scientists and Progressive constitutional law professors have echoed the founding Progressive principles, that we no longer operate under constitutional limitations and that the centralized administrative state is the more functional and efficient way to govern this country.