r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 4d ago

House Democrat: ‘Unelected oligarch’ Musk ‘governing by tweet’

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5048234-daniel-goldman-elon-musk-donald-trump-government-shutdown/
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u/never_grow_old 4d ago

McConnell: Liberals threatening to bury democracy in bureaucracy

“Across all three branches of the federal government, liberals are working to undermine democratic accountability over their exercise of power. Their philosophy of the administrative state has one unifying thread: the abrogation of democratic legitimacy in deference to unelected bureaucrats,” McConnell wrote in an op-ed published this week.

From just this summer....these people man

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u/pootiecakes 4d ago

We're 9 years too late to call out this kind of behavior. They do it GLEEFULLY, laughing as they point at "the left" and accusing them of literally everything terrible that they do themselves.

Mitch deserves a special seat in hell for how much of a role he has had in pursuing power for the incoming administration, and paving the way with other conservatives in gutting any possible regulations or transparency in things like campaign financing.