Erick-Woods Erickson
Now, understand that Biden believes that the Biden controlled Department of Justice “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” his son, Hunter Biden.
If the President’s own Justice Department could selectively and unfairly prosecute someone and the FBI Director can kick in doors and bug people’s homes without anyone’s knowledge, maybe, just maybe, we should be restraining these institutions. Maybe, just maybe, we have made these institutions too powerful.
If we cannot put Kash Patel in the FBI Director’s Chair because he could return to the days of J. Edgar Hoover, maybe the problem is not Patel but the FBI.
The problem, of course, is that Democrats do not want to restrain the power of the bureaucracy or the institutions of Washington. They simply do not want Republicans running them.
Republicans are not really shattering “norms.” They’re just operating in ways the left and media think only Democrats and those committed to their institutional worldview should operate.
My concern is not that Patel tears down the institution but that he does not. My concern is that many of President Trump’s picks have engaged in elaborate theater to show their loyalty, but they lack the ability, knowledge, competence, and discernment to actually break the back of the bureaucratic state.
If the FBI Director can kick in your door without you knowing it and the Justice Department really is unfairly prosecuting individuals over politics, the institutions need serious reform or need to be razed to the ground. That Democrats are upset Trump wants to do just that or wants to use the power of these institutions to behave as only Democrats think they’re allowed to operate is just another reason we should reduce the government to a size capable of being drowned in a bathtub.
On a side note, perhaps we should create a separate institution that houses the FBI’s national security powers but lacks the FBI’s powers of arrest.
