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Maddow Blog | A growing number of Americans believe Supreme Court is motivated by politics, not law
'Unconstrained executive power': George Will slams Trump as 'most statist' president in 'US history' But 2016 was a turning point for Will, who expressed his vehement disdain for Donald Trump and the MAGA movement by leaving the Republican Party and becoming an independent. Will never looked back: Nine years later, the conservative columnist, now 84, remains a scathing Trump critic. .........

Will attacks Trump's economic policies — including tariffs and protectionism — as contrary to the spirit of true capitalism.

......... Donald Trump's legacy will be a demonstration: How a purely transactional politician, untethered from any political philosophy and uninterested in norms of self-restraint — e.g., unforced respect for the separation of powers — can exploit this architecture for unconstrained executive power." ......... "Trump's ever-shifting and contradictory rationales for tariffs — curing trade deficits, strengthening national security, punishing ingratitude, etc. — reveal that protectionism is not an economic policy, but a political strategy for aggrandizing personal power…. The most statist administration in U.S. history has replaced capitalism with what economists call 'economic repression': government supplanting the market by restraining or compelling economic activities for political objectives." .......... Trump's push to expand the federal government's executive branch, Will warns, goes hand-in-hand with the flawed economic policies of a "Putinesque presidency." ......... "Under the personalist rule by an unfettered executive," Will writes, "the process is the punishment: 'Sentence first — verdict afterwards,' said such an executive, the Queen of Hearts in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'…. Today's administrative state, suffocating society with enveloping laws and regulations, can be wielded like a cudgel by a president enjoying seemingly limitless discretion as congressional majorities choose to be ciphers. A president without constitutional scruples is not limited by institutions that are theoretically, but not actually, rivalrous."

Donald Trump suffers major legal loss in "deep state" war the Trump administration wanted the FTC to be "a subservient agency subject to the whims of the President and wholly lacking in autonomy." The judge added, "That is not how Congress structured it."