Harris would be as much a figurehead as Biden — and we’d be ruled by the swamp

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-02 01:27:42 | Updated at 2024-11-05 23:09:15 3 days ago

Harris would be as much a figurehead as Biden — and we’d be ruled by the swamp
New York Post ^ | Nov. 1, 2024, | Glenn H. Reynolds

Posted on 11/01/2024 6:25:29 PM PDT by george76

We’re seeing a lot of fuss and bother over the 2024 presidential election.

But do we even need a president?

I ask because we don’t have one now.

And we haven’t had one for all practical purposes for something between a few months and three years.

Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald recently tweeted, “The US has no functional president and has not had one for months, and it’s barely noticeable and barely matters because there’s a permanent unelected machine that runs the government.”

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ken.) replied, “Where’s the lie?” Elon Musk commented, “Bingo.”

Joe Biden may be capable of lobbing insults at half the country, but he certainly isn’t running things.

His dementia became impossible to hide, even with the help of an eagerly cooperative media, by June of this year, and was in fact obvious to anyone who cared to notice well before that.

He’s been a figurehead for a long time.

Kamala Harris isn’t running things, either.

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Woodrow Wilson’s wife Edith effectively ran the government for a year and a half,

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if America can get by without a functioning president, people might conclude that we could get by without most of the government, too.

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And if we can get by without most of the government, the appeal of an executive like Argentina’s Javier Milei, who’s in the process of laying off most of the bureaucracy, will only grow.

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1 posted on 11/01/2024 6:25:29 PM PDT by george76

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