NY Times Moonbats Over Trump’s “Power Grab”

See, it was no problem when the Biden-Harris admin was grabbing power in telling schools they had to allow gender confused in women’s sports and bathrooms, that manufacturers had to make EVs which would be the only things consumers could purchase, that consumers could only purchase Approved washers, dryers, and other home appliances, and so much more

Trump’s Power Grab Defies G.O.P. Orthodoxy on Local Control

In the space of two weeks, President Trump threatened to halt a congestion pricing program intended to reduce traffic in New York City and intervened in California as it confronted ruinous fires, overruling local officials as he made decisions about how to manage the state’s complicated water system.

Well, how were the local officials doing with that water management in the People’s Republik of California?

He signed one executive order cutting off federal aid to elementary and high schools that allow transgender athletes to play in women’s sports, and another intended to end funding to medical institutions that use puberty blockers or hormones in gender-affirming treatments. On Thursday, his administration sued the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois in federal court, claiming that sanctuary laws are obstructing the federal government’s ability to enforce immigration policies.

Forcing cities to comply with federal law is now a power grab? I don’t remember the Times freaking out when Obama went after Arizona on SB1070. Not funding life altering medications for minors is a power grab? Well, if it is, I’m good with that.

For decades, the Republican Party, more than the Democratic Party, presented itself as an advocate of federalism, yielding authority and power to state and local governments. But this once-central tenet of Republican thought has seemingly been scrapped, with little debate, as Mr. Trump remakes the Republican Party in his name.

“Republicans believe in federalism, of deferring to the states and the government closest to the people,” said Karl Rove, who was a senior adviser to President George W. Bush. “Not clear how much he shares that view.”

If they want those federal dollars then there are conditions. Perhaps, if Democrats want to do crazy things, then the power and scope of the federal government should be reduced back to where it should be, including all that money.

The president’s attempt to dictate actions by the states — particularly the blue states — is the latest instance in which Mr. Trump has scrambled what remains of Republican orthodoxy. He has forced the party to abandon some of its ideological foundations on questions of foreign policy, deficit spending and, increasingly, respecting the rights of states to govern themselves and resist federal intervention.

That’s not what’s really going on, but, they really do not like Trump returning sanity to federal policy. Blowing up Democrat ideology. Liberal tears taste great.

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