Ned Ryun
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first heard Dec 2024
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Are we gonna continue down this administrative state path? I mean, that's the thing that I hope people did not lose in those executive orders, And dealing with obviously very current issues, but fundamental at the very basis for who we are as a people, who we are as a country, what our future looks like. And honestly, except for the TikTok thing, I couldn't be happier with what he did.
Yeah, American Leviathan is the birth of the administrative state and progressive authoritarianism.
really about the rise at the turn of the 20th century of these progressives rejecting our Constitutional Republic, rejecting and breaking apart the machinery of the Republic, which is the diffusion of power, and then building out this massive bureaucracy, administrative state filled with unelected bureaucrats, who really they viewed as a vehicle for salvation.
And they viewed the bureaucrats as the ones, even though they were unelected, as the ones who should be doing the actual governing, And then you find yourself in the 21st century going, why do these unelected bureaucrats think they decide? Why do they think they can take out the duly elected president of the United States?
And you realize this tension is between two very different governing philosophies. So I try to make it a very concise discussion. explanation of where it began, how we got here and then how we get out of it. So American Leviathan. And I appreciate the great Dan Bongino blurbing the book for me.
But having some conversations with current elected officials and members of Congress, it's even worse than you think, Ned. There are lots of members of Congress who think they should take, they ask these different departments and agencies, what money do you need? They take them at face value.
They think their job and responsibilities then pass through, be a pass through to give these agencies and departments whatever they want. They pass these four and 5,000 page bills that are kind of roughly frame out kind of generally what they want. They send it to these unelected bureaucrats in the article two branch where most of the administrative state resides.
And these bureaucrats put the fine points with statutes and regulations on these bills, and that's the actual governing. So Congress has not only capitulated in oversight because they just give them the funding that they want, they've also capitulated on the idea of legislating.
I mean, the Article I branch has, of their own volition over decades, given these Article II bureaucrats the right to govern this country. And I think this is, again, one of the fundamental issues where you've got to get back to there's an Article I branch, there's an Article II branch, there's an Article III branch, because the founders got something very right, Dan.
They did not trust human nature. They did not trust human nature to have consolidated power. And the whole idea was diffusion of power so that it would never be abused. And what the bureaucrats and the administrative state have been doing and trying to do for the last 100 years –
It's consolidate the legislative, executive, and judicial into one branch, into their bureaucracy to be able to do everything that they want with not a whole lot of oversight and then dictate to the American people, this is how you're going to live your lives. And that's why I say it's progressive authoritarianism.
Yeah, I was just going to say, you took the words out of my mouth. I mean, Donald Trump's approach to life has been, why not? Why can't I do that? Why can't we do that? Why shouldn't we be doing that? And that to me is precisely what we need at this point in our history. It's a singular moment. The man for the hour is Donald Trump.
And I think it's his entire approach of, we shouldn't accept anything. We should be asking, why not? And I'll just say this, Dan. My greatest part about Donald Trump is this. He truly believes decline is a choice. We choose not to decline. We choose to be great and climb to even greater heights of freedom and prosperity. And that, to me, is what America needs at this moment.
We choose not to decline. We choose to be great. And we choose to climb to even greater heights of freedom and prosperity. And the guy that I think is going to do it and hopefully instill a lot of courage into Republicans on the Hill is Donald J. Trump.
Thanks, Dan.
Is this some of your new stuff?
Well, first of all, stop to the madness. I mean, there was no way we were going to last another four years with the insanity that was going on. So we can put a stop to that at least for the moment. I think one of the most exciting things to me is... Can we just pause for one second? I think that's not an overstatement. It's not.
I mean, if that's all... I'm going to be disappointed if that's all we get, but if that's all we get, that's a serious step in the right direction.
Can I start with immigration? Yeah. I mean, this is insane. I mean, we're seeing... What we've seen over the last four years, not only the wide open borders, we don't even really know who's come in. We know there's tens of millions of illegals that have come in, millions of getaways.
I still don't understand why we haven't had a deeper conversation about the tens of thousands of Chinese national males that have come in over the southern border. Like, what the hell is going on with that? Whoever else has come in. At the same time, conversation about the fact that for four years they've been importing new voters.
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