When a future Democrat enters, they'll rally around Democrats being hypocrites if the D's do go that way. Judges could choose that point to say "government overreach has gone too far." You are correct that a precedent is available. I think D's would rather a less totally partisan and authoritative environment so they'll probably steer the other way for the most part but not entirely.

> The sheer brazenness of calling legitimate congressional oversight 'circus-like publicity stunts' is on a whole new level

Is it? I feel like the mud slinging has been in vogue for a few decades.

The willful lawbreaking is new. But the rhetoric feels familiar.

> point do the MAGA folks realize that they are enabling a future Democrat in the White House to do the exact same thing

None of them do. (To be fair, administrations have been expanding the Presidenxy since WWII. We never had a Constitutional discussion of strategic nuclear command or a standing superpower’s army.)

My pet projects are shredding federal student loan records, tearing the turbines out of coal plants and ceasing enforcement on tariffs and duties on all imported food on day one.

Possibly they don't think there will be any future Democrats in the white house because of the work they are doing now.

> enabling a future Democrat in the White House to do the exact same thing

Assuming there will be a future D in the white house, I don't believe they will do the exact same thing.

I don't think the current administration does either.

Go look at @DHSgov on Twitter. They’re leaning into the fascist rhetoric. There’s no pretense anymore.

It’s obvious that they don’t plan on a future Democrat ever occupying the White House again.

I don't get it either. If you're a member of congress push your way in there! Let them cause a confrontation so that it can be fought in courts.

This is how tyranny works. 'for my friends everything, for my enemies the law' is the basic premise.

The day before these people said a woman deserved to be shot in the face 3 times for bumping into a federal officer they said that January 6th was peaceful and celebrated a president pardoning... people that attacked federal officers.

They’re literally Trump’s private gestapo army. Their actions are what gestapo did historically. And they’re only accountable to Trump, with no mechanism to hold anyone accountable.

A new police force is needed to arrest the president and others in the executive branch who break the law. Otherwise the political system of America is broken.

The "pool of money" idea itself has got to go. Government spending and revenues operate much more like sources and sinks than a purse.

Spending injects money into the economy and revenues extract it. The two roughly balance each other but only because overspending/undertaxing increases the money supply in negative ways and under pending/overtaxing decreased the money supply in other negative ways. Besides these, interest rates are the third lever of the economic engine.

The constraint is inflation rather than solvency for states who have monetary sovereignty.

I get the appeal and the logical, rational appeal of the purse model, but it leads to a warped idea of how the government and economy interact.

What color are your tax dollars?

So? Since when does legal matter?

MIGHT MAKES RIGHT. HEIL.

Their bet is that they will not follow the law, nothing will be done about it, and Americans will be ok with it.

So far, that has been the case. The constitution has become meaningless thanks to maga, and you're better off recognizing that America no longer exists the way you thought about the country.