{"id":396443,"date":"2019-02-19T22:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-autocrats-are-replacing-democrats\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T22:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:36:43","slug":"why-autocrats-are-replacing-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-autocrats-are-replacing-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Autocrats Are Replacing Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIf you look at Trump in America and Bolsonaro in Brazil, you see that people want politicians that do what they promise,\u201d said Spanish businessman Juan Carlos Perez Carreno.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard was explaining to The New York Times what lay behind the rise of Vox, which the Times calls \u201cSpain\u2019s first far-right party since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, the growing impatience of peoples with elected leaders and legislators who cannot or will not act decisively explains two realities of our time: the eclipse of Congress and the rise of autocracy worldwide.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>In condemning President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to declare a national emergency and use Pentagon funds to build his wall, Beltway elites have charged the president with a multitude of sins against the Constitution.<\/p>\n

He has usurped the \u201cpower of the purse\u201d that the Founding Fathers invested in Congress. He has disregarded the \u201cchecks and balances\u201d of Madisonian democracy. He is acting like an imperial president.<\/p>\n

Yet the decline of Congress is not a recent phenomenon.<\/span>\u00a0And the principal collaborator in its fall from grace, from being \u201cthe first branch of government\u201d to the least esteemed, has been Congress itself, its own timidity and cowardice.<\/p>\n

Contrast, if you will, the now-inveterate torpor and inaction of Congress with how presidents, declared by historians to be great or near great, have acted.<\/p>\n

Thomas Jefferson seized upon Napoleon\u2019s sudden offer to sell the vast Louisiana territory for $15 million in an act of dubious constitutionality by Jefferson\u2019s own judgment. History has validated his…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shop all books by Pat Buchanan \u201cIf you look at Trump in America and Bolsonaro in Brazil, you see that people want politicians that do what they promise,\u201d said Spanish businessman Juan Carlos Perez Carreno. The Spaniard was explaining to The New York Times what lay behind the rise of Vox, which the Times calls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}