Autopen Nation: It’s Bigger Than Biden
I just got a text from Captain Republican. “I am shocked, shocked that the White House is using Autopens.”
Oops! Now I have a text from the Wizard of Woke: “Pay no attention to the male-identifying person behind the curtain.”
Look, never mind that Joe Biden was basically incapable of performing the office of President of the United States, probably from the moment they fixed the South Carolina primary for him in 2020 to keep Bernie Sanders off the Democrat ticket.
And forget that it wasn’t until well into 2024 that the lapdog media was almost ready to yap in annoying chorus — as annoying lapdogs will do — that Houston We Have a Problem.
But who is kidding whom? The whole point of the administrative state is that the President doesn’t really have executive power. The educated administrative bureaucracy wisely develops policy according to expert-agreed science, and the President signs off on it.
Only, of course, the science on administrative bureaucracy is, per Hayek, that administrative hierarchy cannot work, because it lacks bandwidth, big time. Only a market economy with prices, per Mises, has the bandwidth for that.
The Germans were first to recognize the problem after World War I, when their all-hands review of the war conducted by General Hans von Seeckt determined that war could only work if responsibility were pushed down the military hierarchy as far as possible. Generals and colonels were specifically ordered to issue
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