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A president is elected by the whole American people. He's the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation, right? Judges are appointed, members of Congress are elected in the district or state level. [It’s just] one man, and the Constitution article two has the clause known as the vesting clause, and it says the executive power shall be vested in A president—singular. The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. That president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will on to the government.
The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe they can set their own agenda, no matter what Americans vote for. //
He described how they were shutting down Biden’s open border, ditching the divisive DEI policies that have been infecting the federal government, ending “radical gender ideology” in our federal institutions, ending the participation of men in women’s sports, and refocusing the military on “readiness, preparedness, and lethality” instead of social justice issues. He also praised Elon Musk and the DOGE for the incredible amount of fraud and waste they’ve discovered, saying, “He has undertaken a cost-cutting effort, launching the first-ever Department of Government Efficiency [DOGE], uncovering corruption on a scale that we never thought imaginable.”