See two long paragraphs which mark the conclusion of a longer disquisition on the current state of American politics, from the excellent website Law & Liberty.
If there is common agreement on anything, it is between the left and right in their belief that we need regime change now. Since Plato’s Republic, this necessity has been understood as part of a cycle of regimes—an oligarchic or administrative class arises, and only the centralization of power in a sovereign, along with a temporary de-constitutionalization, can restore justice and popular sovereignty. The Founders recognized this necessity as well, and arguably employed it as justification for their American Revolution—with an elite group of subversive insurgents standing in for the sovereign, writing new laws, and waging war unilaterally. In our day, this move is embodied by elements on the right who seek to empower the executive or the judiciary to rein in the power of the administrative class, thus allowing Congress to fulfill its purpose.
Whether or not these are wise moves, we must recognize that they are historically precedented and inexorable ones. Calling for the left and right to simply recommit to the Constitution is similar to calling on two nations engaged in warfare to cease fire and disarm. As America slips further into the form of an Empire, most politically minded Americans will eventually recognize the urgent necessity of contending for control of the Emperor’s Ring: the imperial city and its institutions. Once it is captured, both sides should hope that the captor will magnanimously reopen it as a forum for constitutional debate.
The reasoning here presented is hard to argue with. The portents do not appear to be optimistic.
