Elections Have to Matter: "Independent" Agencies Are Grossly Unconstitutional

If Presidents can't control the Executive Branch, elections don't really matter. The Administrative State exists to perpetuate unelected Democrat control, no matter who wins or loses. It has to end.

by Rod D. Martin
February 24, 2025

Ninety years ago, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal created a constitutional obscenity: agencies of government that violated separation of powers and that were not accountable to the elected President.

You might find it odd that as dynamic a President as FDR would want this, but oh dear reader, you are missing the point. The agencies were staffed almost entirely by Democrats, who were happy to do Roosevelt’s bidding. It’s after Roosevelt, when Democrats lost elections to Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes and Trump that the brilliance of FDR’s plan kicked in. Because a permanent bureaucracy permanently staffed by Democrats will perpetuate Democrat rule no matter who wins a mere election.

The New Deal was, in short, a stealth, slow-motion coup. We’re still living under the new regime it created, keeping the forms but not the substance of the old Republic.

To achieve these ends, Roosevelt’s Democrats had to do two things.

First, the new agencies had to viol…