The office of the president of the United States is the only nationally elected office and, as such, is cloaked in immense powers. Article 2 of the Constitution, “the vesting clause,” says power is vested in one person: the president.
Any “risk to democracy” is not a president trying to right-size government. It is the unaccountable and unelected bureaucracy of lifetime civil “servants” who make laws, regulate and answer to no one.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has a 13-foot-tall stack of laws created by the “administrative state” in his office. Contained therein are more than 300,000 federal criminal offenses on the books for which they can arrest anyone of us.
Trump ran (with Elon Musk) on cutting wasteful spending and fraud and taming the burgeoning Washington bureaucracy. Democrats are shocked when a politician does what he says he is going to do.
The cockroaches are scattering in D.C. Only the most corrupt politicians are complaining about DOGE. Dems have not been this nervous with DOGE poking around since they thought the Epstein Island list would get out.