Bring it: Washington bureaucracy prepares to "resist Trump"

Trump proposes to enforce our laws. That’s the ironic, even humorous aspect of this whole thing.

We have all the right laws on the books to keep those criminal aliens out, but the progressive bureaucracy has cooperated closely with Obama in violating the intent of our actual laws. (To be clear, moreover, presidents of both parties have contributed to this aggregate, decades-long violation.)

The same observation can be made about many of the activities undertaken by other agencies as well, such as the EPA, the EEOC, the IRS, and the Departments of Justice, Education, Homeland Security, and the Interior.

It’s turning the world upside down, to suggest that if Trump wants to enforce the actual laws we have passed, through due, constitutional process, it would be a blow for “liberal, constitutional order” to resist him.

A good 80% of the civil service establishment in Washington has its origins in extra-constitutional progressivism. It exists partly because Congress gave up fighting the growth of the federal government by the middle of the 20th century, and partly because, once the departments and agencies were put in place, all but two presidents in the last 100 years presided over a long-term trend of unchecked mission creep and political initiative within them. (The two presidents bucking the trend were Coolidge and Reagan.)