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American Leviathan · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  Speaker 1: Gave up on the art of subtlety, just a sledgehammer.
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  Speaker 1: Let's call it out for what it is. When you
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  Speaker 1: have a unelected, unaccountable administrative state, you end up with
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  Speaker 1: authoritarians dictating to the American people. But no, the book
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  Speaker 1: really is about the rise of the progressive movement in
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  Speaker 1: this country, their attempts to destroy the moral and political
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  Speaker 1: authority of our constitution, but even more so, Buck, to
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  Speaker 1: destroy the machinery of the republic, leave that behind and
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  Speaker 1: in its place, implement a vast and massive bureaucracy filled
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  Speaker 1: with unelected bureaucrats who they thought would do the governing
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  Speaker 1: of this country. And even more so, Buck, the only
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  Speaker 1: separation progressives believed in was separating out that administrative state
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  Speaker 1: from any political accountability. So the only real surprise I
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  Speaker 1: have right in this day and age in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four is that we didn't see this conflict coming to
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  Speaker 1: the surface sooner. But it took Donald J. Trump showing
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  Speaker 1: up in January of twenty seventeen to DC and saying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the duly elected President of the United States, I'm the
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  Speaker 1: one who decides, And the administrative state said, no, we
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  Speaker 1: don't think so, we think we're the ones that decide,
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  Speaker 1: and this competing governing philosophy between a republican administrative state
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  Speaker 1: has burst into the open. If you want to know
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  Speaker 1: what this conflict between Donald Trump and DC is about,
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  Speaker 1: it's about who decides and are we a republic or
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  Speaker 1: we administrative state.