This is how it is supposed to work.
Alejandro Mayorkas, head of the Department of Homeland Security, has been summarily impeached by the House of Representatives. This is the first time in U.S. history that a sitting department head of the executive branch of the United States has been impeached.
This is a wonderful beginning. It shows sophistication, energy, innovation, determination, and the start of some level of accountability for those who are wrecking the country. It’s too little. It’s maybe too late. But, hey, it’s something. We’ll take it.
Sure, the impeachment won’t be tried by the Senate. Mr. Mayorkas, who has dissembled in every testimony, therefore will not likely be removed from office. Still, this sends a huge and devastating signal to the Biden administration.
But it is more than that. It suggests that the Republicans are finally figuring out how the game is played and are perhaps getting geared up to engage it.
The significance needs some explanation:
“A good magistrate will not fear” the powers of impeachment, went one argument. “A bad one ought to be kept in fear of them.” The chief executive is not a king. The people are king. When the presidency betrays the country, he has to go.
It’s true that the U.S. Constitution seems to focus this power on the president himself. But in reality, it pertains to the entire executive branch for which he is responsible. The president of the United States has recently been declared too mentally incompetent to be held accountable for his actions.
Therefore, who should be held accountable?
The cabinet heads are a great place to start. The job of the Department of Homeland Security is in the name. Mr. Mayorkas has clearly aided and abetted a vast and unchecked invasion of the United States, even to the point of stopping the state of Texas from enforcing its own border protections.
To be clear, this is not about immigration as we once knew it. We have the federal government here enabling a massive invasion of the country. And why? Likely to better allow the electoral system to be manipulated to advantage one political party and one branch of the regime. The mass refugee crisis makes this possible by enabling voter fraud and the eventual skewing of the census numbers to bring about a permanent majority for the Democrats. In so doing, they are displacing actual American citizens within their own country and shoring up their own power in the most cynical way one can imagine.
These are all criminal acts. And I say this as a longtime supporter of liberal immigration policies, for which I’ve argued on national television and in print many times. It has never been more difficult to legally immigrate and never easier to break the law. That’s the situation in which we find ourselves.
Nor is this merely turning a blind eye to undocumented workers. This is using and abusing millions of people to install in this country as warm bodies to achieve definite political ends.
So The New York Times has it exactly backward. This is not abusing a power meant for despots to achieve political goals. It is using a constitutional tool to curb despots who are abusing their power to achieve political goals.
Flooding conquered territories with aliens has been a long habit of tyrannical and imperialistic regimes. The Roman Empire tried it. So did the Spanish empire. The Soviets did that too. It’s a tactic toward securing control.
What we have here is even darker: We have our own government deploying mass demographic tactics to bring about electoral outcomes to keep them in power. This feels more like treason than a policy dispute.
It’s about time that the Republicans woke up and observed what is really happening.
In addition, Mr. Mayorkas has himself presided over a vast censorship and surveillance apparatus of the American people on behalf of the deep-state interests he represents. The people and their elected representatives have tried every avenue to put a stop to it. Nothing has worked. Mr. Mayorkas left the opposition party no other choice.
2. The executive branch is about far more than the president. In the Founders’ time, there was no permanent deep state. The entire executive branch was under the control of the president. Therefore, everything that happened in any agency was ultimately his responsibility, precisely as the Constitution establishes.
That has dramatically changed in the 20th century. We got rid of the unfairly smeared “spoils system” and put in its place a permanent bureaucracy. The president appoints 4,000 or so people to fill various positions, but there are millions more who imagine themselves to be completely above any and all accountability. They have unions that guard job protections under the law.
This whole system is completely unconstitutional. It amounts to the creation of a fourth branch of government. When President Donald Trump tried to do something about it, they turned on him and tricked him into locking down the country and enabling mass absentee ballots and effectively drove him out of the White House. In that same period, the machinery of the administrative state invaded all major social media companies to censor posts and crush free speech.
That’s how much power the deep state has today. It is not controlled by the elected president, much less by the people. It must be brought to heel by the only means we have, which is the U.S. Constitution.
Whole agencies need to be abolished, even a hundred or more of them. Start anywhere you want. The impeachment of Mr. Mayorkas is nice, but there are millions of others who need to be put on notice. The executive branch needs to be responsible to the actual executive, who, in turn, must again become a servant of the people!
3. The entire administrative state needs to be held to account. The people in these positions have massively abused their power. The agencies that head them are captured by every manner of special interest. The Food and Drug Administration operates as an arm of pharma, the Department of Labor of the unions, and the FBI as a partisan enforcer.
These agencies exercise autonomous rule-making power. That is, they can tell private businesses what to do without any legislation on the specifics. Congress, too, has ceded too much authority to this fourth branch of government. It also works closely with media, and the corporate media echoes its policy priorities.
It is for this reason that government has become so remote from the people, believing itself the real owner of the country and capable of doing anything it wants, including facilitating a full-scale invasion. They are under the impression that no one can stop them. In this case, it took tremendous public outrage at the waves of refugees to get our elected representatives to act. Even then, it took them two votes finally to get the impeachment.
Does this impeachment seem extreme to you? It’s not. These are emergency times. Everyone senses it. The country is truly on the precipice of permanent disaster. It’s now or perhaps never. This was exactly the time to do something without precedent. May this be a wake-up call that the Biden administration needs: to be put on notice that the people know exactly what is going on and are not going to put up with it anymore.
