Author: John Seiler

Here’s what President Trump should do to deal with the Deep State that, with the connivance of ex-President Obama, is attacking the new presidency: Trump should ask for letters of resignation the top military officers and intelligence officials, then accept all the resignations. And the ex-officers and officials should be banned for life from getting jobs anywhere in the military-industrial complex, or in anything even close to the military. Let them take their plush pensions and leave us alone. Would some worthy officers get thrown in with the bad ones? Yes, but no government job should be a sinecure. Fired...

As I noted in my recent article here, “The Supreme Court: The Most Dangerous Branch,” the third branch of government has aggrandized central power beyond that even imagined by the most fevered early Hamiltonians. The country will be revisiting the court’s history and makeup as Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for the open space, begins confirmation hearings on March 20. Now is a great time to ask the question: Would there be a better way to structure the court, assuming the rest of the Constitution remained intact? I submit the following reform. The idea is to restore to the several...

  It hasn’t been easy, but Trump has put in a great first month as president.  As he said, he “inherited a mess.”  The mess goes back not just through the whole eight years of the Obama regime, but at least through the Bushes and Clintons. We can stop there, because the end of the Cold War, 1989-91, marked a time when America could have used a “peace dividend” to regroup, heal domestic wounds and develop a sensible foreign policy. Instead, in foreign affairs, America’s unique power of the 1990s was wasted on establishing first  President George H.W. Bush’s New...

By John Seiler President Trump – it’s great writing that! – now is facing a problem similar to that of President Reagan in 1981: His own fellow Republicans are obstructing his agenda. For Reagan, the main problem was the old “root canal Republicans,” such as Bob Dole, then the chairman of the Senate’s Finance Committee. The phrase derived from Democrats going on huge spending binges, then Republicans being the supposed “adults” who performed painful oral surgery with tax increases to pay for everything, as they did under President Eisenhower in 1953 and President Nixon in 1969. The result was Republicans...

By John Seiler Back in 1933 FDR set the precedent of a Hundred Days to impose a new agenda on the country. His New Deal was based on the recent policies of Hitler and Mussolini, as Wolfgang Schivelbusch detailed in his book, “Three New Deals.” As we’ve seen during this transition period before his January 20 inauguration, Donald Trump seems to have rather the opposite in mind: rolling back centralized government while pushing what remains – which still will be way too much – to be more efficient, such as protecting the borders. Obviously Trump isn’t a libertarian, or even...